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Richmond Highway Express
The Richmond Highway Express a.k.a. "REX", was a limited-stop bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between King Street–Old Town station of the Yellow Line (WMATA), Yellow and Blue Line (WMATA), Blue lines of the Washington Metro and Fort Belvoir. This line ran through the U.S. Route 1 in Virginia, Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 1) corridor in Fairfax County, Virginia. This line provided a cross-county service from the neighborhood of List of neighborhoods in Alexandria, Virginia#Old Town, Old Town Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia and the military base of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County. Route REX ran from its northern end at King Street–Old Town station, south through Eisenhower Avenue station, Huntington station (Washington Metro), Huntington station and Mount Vernon, Virginia before ending at Fort Belvoir Post Exchange and Commissary. The service ran limited stops along Richmond Highway in Alexandria between Huntington Station and Fort Bel ...
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New Flyer Industries
New Flyer is a Canadian multinational bus manufacturer, specializing in the production of transit buses. New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group, a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing facilities in Canada and the United States that produce the company's main product, the New Flyer Xcelsior family of buses. This company was formed in 1930 as Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd. as a company that primarily sold buses in Western Canada before changing its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948. Western Flyer Coach was taken over by the Government of Manitoba in 1971, becoming Flyer Industries Limited and was acquired by Dutch-based manufacturer Den Oudsten in 1986, renaming Flyer to New Flyer Industries Limited. KPS Capital acquired New Flyer in 2002, resulting the manufacturer going public in 2005, becoming New Flyer Industries Canada ULC. New Flyer operates multiple production plants in Winnipeg, Manitoba; which is its main Canadian ...
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Yellow Line (WMATA)
The Yellow Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system that runs between in Virginia and in Washington, D.C. It consists of 13 metro station, stations in Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County, the city of Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria, and Arlington County, Virginia, Arlington County in Virginia, and Washington, D.C. It is the shortest line in the system, and since its truncation to Mount Vernon Square, it is the only line that does not enter Maryland. The Yellow Line shares track with the Blue Line (Washington Metro), Blue Line between and and the Green Line (Washington Metro), Green Line between and Mount Vernon Square. It has only two stations that are not shared by any other lines (Huntington and ) and only two sections of track that are not shared by any other lines – the section south of King Street–Old Town and the section between and , crossing the Potomac River. On weekdays, trains run every 6 minutes until 9:30PM and every 7.5 minutes a ...
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Eisenhower Avenue Station (Washington Metro)
Eisenhower Avenue station is a rapid transit station on the Yellow Line of the Washington Metro in Alexandria, Virginia. It opened on December 17, 1983. Location The station is located at Eisenhower Avenue near Stovall Street, next to the Capital Beltway and the Hoffman Town Center entertainment complex. The station provides connections to Metro's REX (Richmond Highway Express) bus service and the DASH bus service run by the city of Alexandria. Notable places nearby * Albert V. Bryan US Courthouse * American Trucking Association * Capital Beltway * National Science Foundation * Strayer University (Alexandria Campus) * United States Patent and Trademark Office History Originally scheduled to open in summer 1982, its opening was delayed due to both unavailability of new subway cars and the lack of a test track. Construction of the station was complete by summer 1982, and in September 1983 Metro announced the station would open that December as the new cars would be ready for ...
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Virginia State Route 236
State Route 236 (SR 236) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 29 in Virginia, U.S. Route 29 and U.S. Route 50 in Virginia, US 50 in Fairfax, Virginia, Fairfax east to Virginia State Route 400, SR 400 in Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria. SR 236 is a major suburban arterial highway that connects the independent city, independent cities of Fairfax and Alexandria via Annandale, Virginia, Annandale in Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County. The state highway is known as Main Street in City of Fairfax, Little River Turnpike in Fairfax County, where the highway meets Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Interstate 495 (I-495), and Duke Street in Alexandria, where the road has junctions with Interstate 395 (District of Columbia – Virginia), I-395 and U.S. Route 1 in Virginia, US 1. Route description SR 236 begins at an intersection with US 29 and US 50 in the western part of the city of Fairfax. US 29 heads west-southwest a ...
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National Harbor-Alexandria Line
National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, census-designated place * National, Nevada, ghost town * National, Utah, ghost town * National, West Virginia, unincorporated community Commerce * National (brand), a brand name of electronic goods from Panasonic * National Benzole (or simply known as National), former petrol station chain in the UK, merged with BP * National Book Store, a bookstore and office supplies chain in the Philippines * National Car Rental, an American rental car company * National Energy Systems, a former name of Eco Marine Power * National Entertainment Commission, a former name of the Media Rating Council * National Motor Vehicle Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 1900–1924 * National Radio Company, Malden, Massachusetts, USA 1914–1991 * National Supermarket ...
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Leesburg Pike Line
The Leesburg Pike Line, designated Route F20, is a daily bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Tysons station of the Silver Line of the Washington Metro and King Street – Old Town station of the Yellow and Blue lines of the Washington Metro. The F20 trips run every 12 minutes between 7AM and 9PM and 30 minutes after 9PM. This line provides service from Tysons Corner in Fairfax County to Old Town Alexandria. Route F20 trips are roughly 90 minutes long. It is the busiest metrobus route in Virginia at around 6,400 riders per weekday in 2023. Route description and service The F20 operates out of Four Mile Run Division 7 days a week. The F20 operates via Leesburg Pike, Broad Street, Seminary Road and Duke Street throughout the entire route. In the Alexandria portion of the route, the F20 runs limited stop between Foxchase and King Street Station, while the remaining portions are local service. The F20 runs through the neighborhoods of ...
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DASH (bus)
DASH is the main Public transport bus service, public transit bus operator in the Northern Virginia city of Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria. DASH provides bus service within the City of Alexandria, connecting to local and regional public transit services in the Washington metropolitan area. DASH operates throughout the city of Alexandria, with 124 buses on eleven routes. DASH buses serve all five Washington Metro stations within Alexandria city limits, with additional hubs at the Mark Center Building, the former Landmark Mall, and The Pentagon. DASH buses carry over five million passengers annually . DASH is operated by the Alexandria Transit Company (ATC), a non-profit corporation wholly owned by the City of Alexandria. ATC is governed by an eleven-person board of directors elected by the city council. The Alexandria Transit Company was formed to supplement the regional rail and bus service provided by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and to provide ...
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Union Station (Alexandria)
Alexandria Union Station is a historic railroad station in Alexandria, Virginia, south of Washington, D.C. To avoid confusion with nearby Washington Union Station, the station is often referred to as simply Alexandria. Its Amtrak code is ALX. The station is located on Callahan Drive in the Old Town section of the city. It is served by both Amtrak intercity and Virginia Railway Express (VRE) commuter rail lines. The station serves as an alternative stop for Amtrak riders traveling through the Washington area, analogous to the role Newark Penn Station plays in the New York area. It is located directly across the tracks from the King Street–Old Town station of the Washington Metro. Since the opening of the Metro station in 1983, the city has touted the station as an intermodal hub for regional mass transit, linking Amtrak, VRE, and Metro with a number of Alexandria DASH and Metrobus lines. The Virginia Department of Transportation and Northern Virginia Transportation Authori ...
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Virginia Railway Express
Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from Spotsylvania, Virginia, and the Manassas Line from Broad Run station in Bristow, Virginia. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Service to Manassas began on June 22, 1992; the Fredericksburg service started on July 20, 1992. VRE is owned by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC). The NVTC and PRTC are governmental entities that were created by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Local governments (such as counties and cities) within each commission's geographic area are members of each commission. The service will undergo expansion as the result of a December 19, 2019 deal brokered between former Virginia governor Ralph No ...
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United States, contiguous U.S. states and three Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian provinces. ''Amtrak'' is a portmanteau of the words ''America'' and ''track.'' Founded in 1971 as a Quasi-corporation, quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail routes, Amtrak receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit corporation, for-profit organization. The company's headquarters is located one block west of Washington Union Station, Union Station in Washington, D.C. Amtrak is headed by a Board of Directors, two of whom are the United States Secretary of Transportation, secretary of transportation and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amtrak, while the other eight members are nominated to serve a ...
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King Street – Old Town Station
King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a constitutional monarch if his power is restrained by fixed laws. Kings are hereditary monarchs when they inherit power by birthright and elective monarchs when chosen to ascend the throne. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the title may refer to tribal kingship. Germanic kingship is cognate with Indo-European traditions of tribal rulership (cf. Indic ''rājan'', Gothic ''reiks'', and Old Irish ''rí'', etc.). *In the context of classical antiquity, king may translate in Latin as '' rex'' and in Greek as ''archon'' or ''basileus''. *In classical European feudalism, the title of ''king'' as the ruler of a ''kingdom'' is understood to be the highest rank in the feudal order, potentially subject, at least nominally, only to an emperor (harking back to ...
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