Hampton Roads Pressroom
Light Rail safety in Norfolk
Post Date: Jul 28
WTKR-TV3
5:19 PM EDT, July 27, 2010
Transportation officials in Norfolk are working to make sure people are safe when the Light Rail starts running.
Preventing a crash between a Light Rail train and a vehicle is what the city of Norfolk and HRT wants to work to prevent before the trains [...]
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Norfolk doctor concerned about light rail and children
Post Date: Jul 28
By Patrick Terpstra
13NEWS / WVEC.com
Posted on July 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM
NORFOLK — A Norfolk doctor sounded the alarm to HRT and city leaders about the proximity of light rail tracks to her office.
There is a ramp right in front of Dr. Susan Garvey’s York Street office leading directly to tracks with nothing [...]
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Making a case for light rail
Post Date: Jul 28
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 27, 2010
In 1999, when Virginia Beach voters were deciding whether to pursue light rail, the concept had no champion at the Beach.
The City Council didn’t campaign for it as a transportation strategy and land-use planning tool. Tourism officials didn’t make the case for easing resort area [...]
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Light-rail trains will be in motion, but it’s too early to hop aboard
Post Date: Jul 28
By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 25, 2010
NORFOLK
After sitting idle for nearly nine months, trains will start moving along light-rail tracks in the next few weeks.
But they’ll be empty. The service won’t launch until May. The activity is part of an exhaustive vehicle testing schedule in preparation for carrying passengers. Everything [...]
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A REFERENDUM ON LIGHT RAIL IN THE BEACH IS A COWARDLY MOVE
Post Date: Jul 28
The Virginian Pilot
7/25/10
LOCAL COUNCIL members are often so transparent, you can see right through them, as if viewing an Xray.
Good luck detecting a spine.
Virginia Beach City Council members are the latest to punt on an issue that should be theirs and theirs alone. A majority now says it favors holding [...]