Hampton Roads Pressroom
Southside mayors endorse high speed rail
Post Date: May 29
Friday, May 29, 2009
By: Patrick Terpstra, WVEC-TV
NORFOLK — Right now it’s a parking lot, but with a little stimulus money it may eventually be a hub for high speed rail.
Southside mayors met this morning behind Harbor Park on the Norfolk waterfront. They’re pledging support to bring bullet trains to Hampton Roads.
“The growth and development we’ve [...]
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HRT board cuts light-rail contract by $514,000
Post Date: May 29
By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 29, 2009
NORFOLK
Hampton Roads Transit’s board on Thursday voted to reduce a light-rail contract by $514,000.
The $10.9 million contract, to build and outfit a light-rail vehicle storage and maintenance facility, called for the purchase of a $1.1 million piece of equipment called a multipurpose vehicle mover.
That is being replaced with a [...]
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Light rail has a pulse in Virginia Beach
Post Date: May 27
Evaluations will begin in an effort to gauge plan’s feasibility
By Aaron Applegate / The Virginian-Pilot
VIRGINIA BEACH
THE FIRST SIGNS of a light-rail project are coming this summer.
From traffic-counting tubes, to biologists tramping through wetlands, to newsletters, residents will see the start of the $1.5 million study to evaluate extending light rail to the Beach from Norfolk.
Project [...]
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No more door-to-door
Post Date: May 22
By R.E. Spears III | Suffolk News-Herald
Published Thursday, May 21, 2009
A recent study by the Hampton Roads Transit Authority may mark the end of the line for Suffolk’s laid-back, stop-anywhere bus routes.
With Tidewater’s most unreliable routes and its most accommodating network of stops — two factors that turn out to be intimately related — public [...]
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Light rail costs evaluated
Post Date: May 21
Published : Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 3:25 PM EDT
By: Lori Crouch
NORFOLK, Va. – The sound of progress heralds a new wave of transportation – The Tide light rail system. Norfolk’s 7.4 mile line from Newtown Road stretches through downtown Norfolk to the EVMS medical complex.
At $288 million dollars, Hampton Roads Transit president Michael Townes says [...]