[net-gold] TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER: Light-Rail Tide Rolls in Norfolk
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- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:57:52 -0400 (EDT)
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TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER:
Light-Rail Tide Rolls in Norfolk
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Light-Rail Tide Rolls in Norfolk
Monday, August 15, 2011
By: PETER BACQU
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: July 24, 2011
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/state-news/2011/jul/24/
tdmain01-the-tide-rolls-in-norfolk-ar-1192784/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3pul6ea
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NORFOLK --
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After rolling up large cost overruns and long delays in its construction,
the Norfolk Tide light-rail system is rolling into operation.
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Twenty-five years in the making, the Tide will go into service the middle
of next month.
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"Norfolk is the smallest city in the U.S. to have its own starter
light-rail system," boasts Philip A. Shucet, president and CEO of Hampton
Roads Transit, the regional public transit agency.
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The operative word is "starter."
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The Tide runs on a 7.4-mile route entirely in Norfolk. Reaching from
Eastern Virginia Medical Center to Newtown Road near the Virginia Beach
line, an end-to-end ride takes just 24 minutes.
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But, Shucet said, "the hope is sometime it will extend into Virginia
Beach."
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Though it doesn't now run to the lively Virginia Beach oceanfront or to
the huge Norfolk Naval Base, the Tide does link employment centers,
hospitals, colleges, entertainment and shopping centers along Interstate
264 in Norfolk.
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But increasing highway congestion, rising gas prices and changing urban
development patterns has spurred renewed interest in taking the Tide 12
miles to the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
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Extending the Tide all the way to the oceanfront would cost more than $800
million, but Virginia Beach's mayor says he's open to the idea if the
light-rail system attracts enough riders.
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Originally envisioned as an 18-mile link between downtown Norfolk and
Virginia Beach, the high capital costs of such a system and the
competition for scarce public funding truncated the Tide "to what they
called a minimum operable system," explained Dwight L. Farmer, executive
director of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission.
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