Norfolk’s light rail to begin service spring/summer 2011
By Patrick Terpstra, 13News
Posted on February 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM
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NORFOLK — Light rail trains will be running in the spring or summer of 2011, HRT’s new CEO and president Phil Shucet told Norfolk City Council members Tuesday.
It’s the first estimate from HRT for completion of The Tide since a series of cost overruns and construction delays were revealed in December.
The project is 61 percent complete with major construction expected to be “substantially complete” in July.
Shucet said it’s still too soon to estimate how much it will cost to complete the project.
Shucet, on the job for a week, said that number will be ready next week and made public at the HRT commission meeting on Feb. 18.
“It will be a number everyone at HRT will own,” Shucet told council members.
Shucet is slated to brief Virginia Beach council members later Tuesday.