about 10 months ago - No comments
HRT is testing the light rail this week. I got this picture at Harbor Park station.
about 11 months ago - No comments
My thoughts on the future of Hampton Roads.
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
So the city of Norfolk is purchasing 749 York St. because of apparent concerns for pedestrian safety. This sets a dangerous precedent. If they start spending money on pedestrian safety, they might have to start maintaining crosswalks and crossing signals at major intersections. They might have to build sidewalks along major roadways. This care might [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Finally. Norfolk’s City Manager Regina V. K. Williams has announced her retirement. She may have done wonderful things in the past, but she had overstayed her usefulness. January 14, 2011 will mark a new era in Norfolk. Hopefully, it will be an era with a younger Manager full of fresh, new ideas.
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
As part of the State of the Region report released by ODU yesterday, Economist James Koch made the statement that the cost of Norfolk’s Light rail is not “justifiable.” He claimed that the continual costs would have to be subsidized at a rate so high that it wold not be worth it. Of course, I [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
The city called for the removal of former HRT CEO Michael Townes after it became known that he had not directly informed the City Council about missing fare box money and cost overruns on the light rail project. So far, we have found out about a number of situations in which people being paid by [...]
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
VDOT has $5 million to spend on yet another study? If they had spent half as much on roads as on studies, we might have a world class transportation network here in Hampton Roads. As a region, we need to focus on building a well-planned “third crossing.” Expanding the HRBT will absolutely reduce congestion on [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
According to a VP article today, the Virginia Department of Transportation may require Virginia Beach to use the Norfolk Southern corridor for light rail in exchange for the $20 million dollar contribution for its purchase. This should not be new. That was the stated purpose when the state approved the grant to assist in the [...]
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
Norfolk is moving forward with planning and financing a new multi-modal transportation center Downtown. Excellent idea. The plan is to have it ready to open once Amtrak rolls in in three years. It is very exciting. Combining the news of Virginia Beach’s move toward urbanism and I get the idea that our area is actually [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I know I have mentioned Virginia Beach’s Strategic Growth Areas before but I wanted to touch on them again since the Virginian Pilot had an article about SGAs in Saturday’s paper. The Pilot’s Aaron Applegate reported that, in order to make up for the fact that the city has run out of large tracts of [...]
about 2 years ago
Never will Chesapeake be bigger than Va Beach
about 2 years ago
Thats what Norfolk said about Virginia Beach in the 60s. Norfolk had 300,000+ residents. Virginia Beach only had 84,000. In the 50, Virginia Beach had only 42,000. Chesapeake had over 100,000. It has happened. To assume that it could never happen again is to ignore the past and possibilities for the future.
about 2 years ago
Henry mentioned in his post this will make 5 of the 7 cities interested in light rail. Suffolk i don’t expect to be interested right away but Hampton has no excuse. i’m sick of them piggybacking on NN ideas after they are pursued. yeah it’s gonna take joint effort but if u see the way they are trying to redevelop the city (or lack thereof) you’ll see that they are in no way utilizing the land to gear towards mass transit. i feel once it’s all said and done, Hampton is going to be the cause of a hold up in light rail connecting the southside with the peninsula via a tunnel
about 1 year ago
When is the chesapeake light rail gonna be finished and how long is the light rail is gonna take to build? What routes is it gonna go?