Editing Charlottesville, Virginia (section)

==Infrastructure==

===Transportation===
====Roads and highways====
[[File:2019-06-06 12 13 12 View west along Interstate 64 at Exit 121 (Virginia State Route 20, Charlottesville, Scottsville) in Charlottesville, Virginia.jpg|thumb|right|I-64 westbound at Exit 121 in Charlottesville]]
The most significant highways passing through Charlottesville are [[Interstate 64 in Virginia|Interstate 64]] and [[U.S. Route 29 in Virginia|U.S. Route 29]]. I-64 heads east to [[Interstate 95 in Virginia|Interstate 95]] in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] and west to [[Interstate 81 in Virginia|Interstate 81]] in [[Staunton, Virginia|Staunton]]. US 29 heads southwest towards [[Lynchburg, Virginia|Lynchburg]] and northeast to [[Washington, D.C.]] Other highways serving Charlottesville include [[U.S. Route 250 in Virginia|U.S. Route 250]] and [[Virginia State Route 20]]. US 29 and US 250 are served locally by bypasses around downtown, with business routes passing directly through downtown.

====Public transportation====
[[File:Cville bus Station (4904743457).jpg|thumb|left|Bus Transit Center in downtown Charlottesville (2013)]]
Charlottesville is served by [[Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport]], the [[Charlottesville (Amtrak station)|Charlottesville Amtrak Station]], and a [[Greyhound Lines]] intercity bus terminal. Direct bus service to [[New York City]] is also provided by the [[Starlight Express (bus)|Starlight Express]]. [[Charlottesville Area Transit]] provides area bus service, augmented by JAUNT, a regional [[paratransit]] van service. [[University Transit Service]] provides mass transit for students and residents in the vicinity of the University of Virginia and Charlottesville area.

=====Rail=====
[[Amtrak]], the national passenger rail service, provides service to Charlottesville with three routes: The [[Cardinal (train)|''Cardinal'']] (service between Chicago and New York City via central Virginia and Washington, D.C.), select ''[[Northeast Regional]]'' trains (service between Boston and Roanoke) and the [[Crescent (Amtrak)|''Crescent'']] (service between New York City and New Orleans). The ''Cardinal'' operates three times a week, while the ''Crescent'' and ''Northeast Regional'' both run daily in both directions, but have different operating schedules on the weekdays and weekends.

Charlottesville was once a major rail hub, served by both the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] (C&O) and the [[Southern Railway (US)|Southern Railway]]. The first train service to Charlottesville began in the early 1850s by the Louisa Railroad Company, which became the [[Virginia Central Railroad]] before becoming the C&O. The Southern Railway started service to Charlottesville around the mid-1860s with a north–south route crossing the C&O east-west tracks. The new depot that sprang up at the crossing of the two tracks was called Union Station. In addition to the new rail line, The C&O and Southern located a major repair shop that produced competition between the two rail companies and bolstered the local economy. The Queen Charlotte Hotel went up on West Main street along with restaurants for the many new railroad workers.

The former C&O station on East Water Street was turned into offices in the mid-1990s. [[Charlottesville Union Station]], still a functional depot for Amtrak, is located on West Main street between 7th and 9th streets where the tracks of the former C&O Railway (leased by C&O successor [[CSX]] to [[Buckingham Branch Railroad]]) and Southern (now [[Norfolk Southern Railway]]) lines cross. Amtrak and the city of Charlottesville finished refurbishing the station just after 2000, upgrading the depot and adding a full-service restaurant. The Amtrak Crescent and northeast regional travels on Norfolk Southern's dual north–south tracks. The Amtrak Cardinal runs on the Buckingham Branch east-west single track, which follows [[U.S. Route 250]] from [[Staunton, Virginia|Staunton]] to a point east of Charlottesville near [[Cismont, Virginia]]. The eastbound Cardinal joins the northbound Norfolk Southern line at [[Orange, Virginia|Orange]], on its way to Washington, D.C.

Charlottesville also had an electric streetcar line, the [[Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway]] (C&A), that operated during the early twentieth century. Streetcar lines existed in Charlottesville since the late 1880s under various names until organized as the C&A in 1903. The C&A operated streetcars until 1935, when the line shut down due to rising costs and decreased ridership.

There are proposals to extend [[Virginia Railway Express]], the [[Commuter rail in North America|commuter rail]] line connecting [[Northern Virginia]] to [[Washington, D.C.]], to Charlottesville.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://www.cvillerail.org
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|website=cvillerail.org
 | access-date = February 24, 2008
|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318181320/http://www.cvillerail.org/ |archive-date= Mar 18, 2008
}}</ref> Also, the [[Transdominion Express]] steering committee has suggested making Charlottesville a stop on the proposed statewide passenger rail line.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tdxinfo.org/proposed-route-map/ |title= Route Map |website=TransDominion Express |publisher=The Committee to Advance The TransDominion Express |access-date=April 5, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727184704/http://www.tdxinfo.org/proposed-route-map/ |archive-date= Jul 27, 2010 }}</ref>