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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:09:30 GMT, mnc@admin.u.nu (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

>Keith A. Glass <salgak@earthling.net> wrote:
>> So is Northern PW county and Warren County. . .  except we take the
>> VRE, which doesn't have even a tenth the cancellations and breakdowns
>> that MARC seems to have. . .
>
>Pretty easy with a train that runs, what, once a month?

I've been riding VRE, on and off, for over a year.  Mind you, I can
only speak of the Manassas Line, not the Fredericksburg Line, but I
have NEVER seen one leave the station, inbound, more than 5 minutes
past the scheduled time, and with one exception, when somebody had lit
a fire on the tracks,  had never been more than 10 minutes late
outbound.  Every morning, on WTOP traffic report, it's a 1-in-3 shot
that at least ONE  MARC  train will be at least 30 minutes late or
cancelled.

As for Frequency, I just checked the VRE site.  44 trains, 11 each
direction on both the Manassas and Fredericksburg line.  I wouldn't
call THAT infrequent...
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