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Group: Big dreams for local mass transit achievable
The Virginian-PilotIt was unanimous. All 30 tables of participants in last year's Reality Check conference on the region's future said transportation was a key issue to tackle. Twenty-seven, or 90 percent, supported expanding mass transit. On Thursday, about 150 people...Tags: Oceans, Bill Clinton, Bodies of Water, Amtrak, Public Transportation
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EDITORIAL: Highway plans built in a vacuum
The Virginian-PilotThis year's landmark transportation-funding package will pour billions of dollars more into state coffers in the next several years, and local officials are wasting little time making plans for Hampton Roads' share. Some of the money appears likely to...Tags: Highway Transportation, Economy, Business and Finance, Virginia Department of Transportation, Transportation, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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HRTPO looks to leverage transportation money
CHESAPEAKE — Regional leaders discussed how to make the most of transportation money available to them Thursday at the board retreat of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization. With a little leverage, the estimated $200 million in...Tags: Transportation, Hampton Roads, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Tolls loom large over road projects like third crossing
The Virginian-PilotThe region may see as much as $10 billion in new transportation revenue during the next 20 years, but the prospect of tolls will continue to loom large over Hampton Roads' most expensive projects. That reality was underscored Thursday when a boardroom...Tags: Virginia Department of Transportation, Transportation, Fort Eustis, Hampton Roads, Travel
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HRTPO retreat critical point in road funding debate
On Thursday regional leaders will huddle for a nearly four-hour retreat in a cramped board room to discuss how they'll spend an estimated $200 million per year to alleviate road congestion. Although they won't make any firm decisions, the talks will...Tags: Government, Virginia Department of Transportation, Politics, Transportation, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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I-64 widening may come sooner... and cheaper
The Virginia GazetteWILLIAMSBURG – Whenever Williamsburg City Council has talked about the possibility of widening Interstate 64, it's always been with the understanding that any work was years away. But "not in any of our lifetimes" may have shortened to "wait until...Tags: Virginia Department of Transportation, Transportation, Hampton Roads, Travel, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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The status of regional transportation funding
I became involved with regional and statewide transportation issues in July 2009 as a result of my appointment to the Commonwealth Transportation Board as the Hampton Road representative. Transportation revenues had not been raised in over 20 years and...Tags: Government, Politics, Transportation, Public Officials, Regional Authority
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Gov. McDonnell and the FBI, W&M law students helping vets
Full disclosure The FBI is looking into the relationship between Gov. Bob McDonnell and the CEO of the food supplement firm Star Scientific. The inquiry has to do with money that Jonnie R. Williams Sr. gave to the governor and the question of whether...Tags: Government, Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Norment a no-show at HRTPO
Since being appointed to the board of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization in May 2012, Sen. Tommy Norment, R-James City County, has not made an appearance at a board meeting, despite being a major player on transportation issues in...Tags: Government, Politics, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Voting, Transportation
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April 30 Letters: Tunnel congestion, Muslim community
Hampton Mayor Molly Joseph Ward, chairwoman of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization, got it partly right. Her "congestion pricing" assumes there is enough discretion travel during peak travel hours in our tunnels that a small toll...Tags: Politics, Islam, Transportation Industry, Sports, Hampton Roads
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There's regional strength in compromise
Recent events — particularly new transportation legislation [and] sequestration — remind us regionalism is becoming more and more a fact of life. Some like to say Hampton Roads is not a region and that it citizens don't want to be one,...Tags: Emporia (Emporia, Virginia), Transportation, Suffolk (Suffolk, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Travel
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Sequestration would reach far into the Virginia Peninsula community - and affect health services
Like a victim tied to buzz saw table in an old movie melodrama, federal, state and local agencies and departments, and a host of businesses and nonprofit organizations are watching with alarm as budget blades churn toward them. On Friday automatic...
Tags: Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Scott Rigell, Labor Legislation
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