Community Advisory Group Meeting #3 - Arlington and Alexandria Projects   1/30/2026

I just realized I was on mute.

Naomi?

I am the Permitting and Stakeholder Manager for the Long Bridge Project.

Jeremy?

Hi, Jeremy Lattimer, Director of Rail Services, Virginia Passenger Rail Authority.

Brian?

Good afternoon, I'm Brian Bries, Project Manager for Long Bridge Rail Partners here on the Long Bridge South Project.

I'm the Community Affairs Manager for Virginia Passenger Rail Authority.

I am the VPRA Project Manager for Alexandria Fourth Track.

I'm with the Construction Management Team for the Alexandria Station and King and Commonwealth Bridge Project.

I am VRE's Public Affairs Administrator.

I'm the Deputy Program Manager of Construction for CSX on the PRB program.

Let's start with Naomi.

but rather you can think of us as the entity that owns the rail tracks and builds projects that expand the rail tracks so that we can have more passenger rail and separate passenger from freight rail.

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What you can see is that we have 11 projects and an agreement with CSX that in completing these projects, it unlocks new service, two new Amtrak and three new VRE round trips, including VRE late night and weekend service and then additionally future capacity for even more Amtrak and VRE trips.

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There's also 32 trains a day from VRE that are split between Manassas and Fredericksburg.

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We're doing some geotechnical exploration work and then we're also building bulkheads that will allow us to access the water and I believe Brian from Long Bridge Rail Partners will be talking more about those construction efforts.

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Okay and I think now I am handing it over to Brian to talk about the construction activities in the Potomac River.

So motorists should plan for some minor impacts as we have to take lanes and shoulder closures in those areas to facilitate that work being done safely.

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We intend to make social media posts and we'll have routine interaction in regards to the Mount Vernon Trail as it's a major element in terms of managing the trail users in conjunction with our construction project here over the next couple of years.

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All right, now I'll turn it over to Long Bridge North folks to talk about DC construction activities.

All right, Naomi.

The other main access point for rail bridge construction on the Long Bridge North project is from East Potomac Park and the two parking lots there that are closest to the Potomac River are going to be used for construction, staging, and equipment.

Thank you Naomi.

We introduced that to you at the last CAG meeting.

We continue to update it with the latest information.

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I think we'll be passing it over to Lindsay.

Thanks, everyone.

Thanks.

Jeremy, next slide, please.

Sorry, Linda.

I'm eager to hear from you guys, we all are.

Go ahead, John, Patrick.

I know you're very busy, but send an email that can be answered when that person has the time to answer my email.

And we can also send that directly to you, John.

And also, as I say, exactly, if you could also drop in exactly where to go to look at this briefing online, because I've been trying to take notes, but it's a lot, a lot of information coming very fast.

So that's always a great place to reach us.

Great, thank you.

Hey, Meredith.

If you have questions about Alexandra Station or K&K Commonwealth, Lindsay, do you have the email?

We have an email address.

OK. And we can also send that to you, John.

We have another question from Steve Mass, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, Mass.

First of all, when are you going to be posting all of this stuff?

We'll do it as soon as possible.

When do you have a sense of when different sections of the track will be worked on, how severe might the noise be, what it will be coming from, and vibrations as well.

I guess Adam, would you be able to speak towards any of the vibration concerns that Steve brought up?

I mean, there might be some vibrations with wall work, but it should all be isolated to pretty much the corridor location.

I mean, is there going to be pounding or how do you do that?

Yes.

That should be, you know, from a vibration standpoint, should be minimal at most, and then from a sound standpoint, shouldn't be too loud.

And when you say it shouldn't be too loud, would you be able to hear it from the street, from Crystal Drive?

I don't think it would be as loud as if you hear a train coming down through the area.

Okay, and what about for the buildings that back onto the track?

You mean as far as like echoing or inside the buildings themselves?

Yeah, inside the buildings and just along that stretch, which includes where the new train station is going to be built.

Maybe we want to shift this question over to DRD.

If you're on the street, you may hear some of it, but it shouldn't be a large amount of noise happening inside.

And do you have a schedule yet of like how long it'll be in different sections?

Of course, as things become very clear or if there's specific work that's happening that we think from either a sound or vibration perspective that might be an issue for the public, that is something that we'd be coordinating with our outreach team, Meredith and her team, to try and get that out to you all if we have enough notice to give you all that heads up.

And finally, is it going to be just during the day or at night too?

And whenever we do have the night work, we will try and give you that notice as well.

Great, thank you.

I don't know if you have the right people to speak to right now.

Chris, do you mind chiming in?

So nothing really out of the ordinary.

Did you still want to ask your question, Claudia?

I guess my question for the Mount Vernon Trail activity is should we then confidently say for trail users that there will always be activity in that area beyond just January and February?

Yes, there will be a constant interaction on a daily basis for the next four to five years.

That's helpful to confirm.

I have a question here from Carol Fuller.

CSX has done that occasionally, but we have to constantly remind them of this because it's extremely annoying to the residents to have the honking horns all night because of the materials and the porta-potties being right next to the access.

We will pass that along.

Go ahead, John.

Yes, can you hear me?

Yes.

Because it seems Commonwealth Avenue actually has the best access there to the roadbed.

And then just the other parts that the contract will be using are on the south side of King Street, like adjacent to the station in order to put in the elevators as well.

Thank you.

No problem.

Meredith, I don't know if we're doing on time.

We'll be back for another community advisory group meeting in three months.

Thank you.