The reaction to the report by leaders of the GRTC board of directors demonstrates the challenge of bridging a long divide between Richmond and Chesterfield over access to bus service, especially for jobs.

The Greater Washington Partnership’s blueprint is not recommending anything that is not already happening between GRTC and the Chesterfield County administration, said Chairman Gary Armstrong, who represents Chesterfield.

But the Rev. Ben Campbell, vice chairman of the board, representing Richmond, said of Chesterfield, “The whole community needs them to have transportation along their three major corridors” — U.S. 60 (Midlothian Turnpike), U.S. 360 (Hull Street Road), and U.S. 1 (Jeff Davis Highway).

“There is probably no major city in the world with corridors that significant that does not have public transit along them,” Campbell said. “The whole community needs it, and Chesterfield residents need it, too.”

Transit advocates contend the business community needs it, too, as companies look to grow, as Amazon proved when it chose Arlington’s newly named National Landing neighborhood for part of its new East Coast headquarters. The site is next to two Metro stops and Reagan Washington National Airport, which will be linked to the project by a new pedestrian bridge.