Excerpt from the Asheville Citizen-Times article:
The city’s first regularly scheduled passenger rail service since 1975 might actually be by bus.
Amtrak is studying establishing a dedicated bus service as soon as 2016 to carry passengers between Asheville and Salisbury, where passengers could connect with trains serving several other Piedmont cities and possibly points as far north as Boston.
The service would give travelers to and from Asheville and seven other communities along the bus route access to train travel in the relatively near future in the hope of building enough ridership to eventually justify passenger trains on the railroad line between Asheville and Salisbury, said Paul Worley, head of the state Department of Transportation’s Rail Division.
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