There have been a lot of issues recently over cost estimates that are starting to rub me the wrong way. I had never mentioned it before but...

I like the business leader approach of Virginia Beach. The city council is elected to make decisions . Top business leaders have come out a...

So says an article in the Virginian Pilot . I had to chuckle when I saw the head line, "Light-rail work creates street-parking havoc i...

I always like reading these articles . It's cool that you can find history right under the streets. Usually it's just utilities an...

Sure they don't have funding but they are building their first line and have big plans for a regional transit network chock full of com...

More on the Virginia Beach saga . An editorial in the local paper is calling on city leaders to be..well..leaders. Apparently back in 1999...

Looks like Norfolk Southern is going to be asking a bit more for the ROW between Virginia Beach and Norfolk. Half of it will be used for t...

Seems as if we have a golden opportunity to take advantage of the financial crisis. One way is the lowered value of property. Virginia Bea...

That's how much the development along the Charlotte light rail line adds up to. No small, change, that's over 250% return on the i...

So it looks like we have a winner. You all believe that the next region to up the ante in the Space Race will be Dallas/Fort Worth. Now m...

The view that transit is a luxury we can't afford in this time of economic peril is getting quite ridiculous. From the papers all over ...

Norfolk State representatives are idiots . Let's move the station away from Campus and on the other side of a major intersection. What...

I've noticed a lot of taxpayer associations popping up talking about black holes. Perhaps they are scared of a certain super collider, ...

Again it's mainly symbolic but it opens up the discussion to connect Virginia Beach to Norfolk . And it gives me a good feeling about ...

The Orange Line BRT estimated initial ridership on a hunch. Models drive me crazy, but this seems a bit nuts as well. From the LA Times: ...

Another day, another China HSR expansion post somewhere in the blogosphere. When are we going to learn? Why are we sitting around doing n...

It has no binding authority or funding but it's a push. An extension to Virginia Beach got a slight nudge when it passed the legislatur...

Unbeknownst to Virginia Beach city leaders, two republican state legislators from Virginia have introduced a bill that would extend the und...

H/T Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Man that Houston can sure build roads! Good thing they're starting to get a little balance . An email on the LightRail_Now yahoo group...