Virginia Beach rolling towards light rail while opposition grows (Norfolk: oceanfront, purchasing)

[slimbobaggins]

What they really need, as someone mentioned earlier, is a light rail connection across the river. I live in VA Beach and work in Newport News. If they could get me from Town Center to Power Plant in Hampton or City Center in NPN, I'd ride my bike to work.

It'll never happen, it's just a dream, but I think that would help take a lot of traffic off of the roads. Not to mention alleviate a lot of cost. Driving 24k miles a year = lots of gas, and vehicle maintenance cost. I'd gladly pay for the light rail ticket each way.

[Statz2k10]

What people are looking at isn't just what the light rail can do now but how it will impact the future on keeping less cars off the road. The city is still growing and more money will be spent on road repair, extended highways etc.

[Lockdev]

Originally Posted by slimbobaggins

What they really need, as someone mentioned earlier, is a light rail connection across the river. I live in VA Beach and work in Newport News. If they could get me from Town Center to Power Plant in Hampton or City Center in NPN, I'd ride my bike to work.

It'll never happen, it's just a dream, but I think that would help take a lot of traffic off of the roads. Not to mention alleviate a lot of cost. Driving 24k miles a year = lots of gas, and vehicle maintenance cost. I'd gladly pay for the light rail ticket each way.

Why not just move to the peninsula?

What you, and seemingly thousands of other people, are doing makes no sense.

[Pyroninja42]

Aaaaand Light Rail passed.

[Poquoson7]

And it will expand again and again until it becomes what it was meant to be, a REGION wide alternative transportation network that will help get us off the freakin pavement.

[LivesInHR]

Originally Posted by Lockdev

Why not just move to the peninsula?

What you, and seemingly thousands of other people, are doing makes no sense.

Because jobs don't come to you, you go to the job. That's the way it works and the sad part is I have a feeling the people in charge of this stupid light rail project think just the opposite.

We do NOT need a stupid light rail going from Norfolk to VA Beach! What we NEED is a light rail connecting northern HR to southern HR.

This whole project is a big waste.

[Coconut1]

Originally Posted by Poquoson7

And it will expand again and again until it becomes what it was meant to be, a REGION wide alternative transportation network that will help get us off the freakin pavement.

No, it won't, at least not in Virginia Beach. The Town Center expansion is as far as it will go in the city. There are other plans for what happens next.

And just to let you know, I don't want a reply to this, just quietly jot it down in a notebook and in a few years when the plan gets going you can refer to your note and say "Wow, they were right."

[Poquoson7]

Originally Posted by Coconut1

No, it won't, at least not in Virginia Beach. The Town Center expansion is as far as it will go in the city. There are other plans for what happens next.

And just to let you know, I don't want a reply to this, just quietly jot it down in a notebook and in a few years when the plan gets going you can refer to your note and say "Wow, they were right."

Here's your unwanted reply, **** once and for all and please resubmit your head into the sand.
Your "opinions" and blathering are acutely void of anything but sophomoric bantering and do nothing but lay waste to intelligent, thoughtful analysis.
And who is "they", you?

[Spazkat9696]

Originally Posted by Poquoson7

Here's your unwanted reply, **** once and for all and please resubmit your head into the sand.
Your "opinions" and blathering are acutely void of anything but sophomoric bantering and do nothing but lay waste to intelligent, thoughtful analysis.
And who is "they", you?

As much a it pains me to agree with coconut, I have to. The light rail is a huge waste that will never go anywhere. This region doesn't have the nessary unity. Think about how crappy the bus service is. The light rail is nothing more than a money sucking novelty. It reminds me of the maglev at ODU. Nothing but a money sucking monster.

[TN Lily]

A light rail plan connecting the peninsula to the southside won't work unless you've got a way to transport people from there -- wherever it ends on both sides --- to where they need to be. The current public transportation system here is abysmal. And the public-private one via the roads & cars ain't so hot either.

Maglev --- I had to look it up. I gather it still exists if it's a money sucking monster.

The localities here seem to be great at throwing money at problems to provide "solutions" that don't resolve anything.