This afternoon there was a fairly uneventful meeting of the Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads (TDCHR), the governing board of Hampton Roads Transit (HRT).
Obviously the August 19 launch of light rail service was talked about. The final figure for the actual cost of construction will be given at the August TDCHR meeting. However, this month's report has it on a track to come in significantly below the $338 million cost to complete figure.
HRT ended FY 2011 more than $1.8 million under Budget.
Ridership in May, 2011 was up over May, 2010.
Hits on HRT's website have hit an all-time high. A record for a month was set in May, 2011, only to have June come in about 50,000 hits above that figure.
Finally, Henry Ryto was awarded HRT's President's Coin for his 38 months of service as Chairman of what's now the Transit Riders Advisory Committee (TRAC). Ryto becomes the first person ever to win the agency's top honor based on duty performed as a non-employee. (Every other winner has been an employee.) Robert Dean and Reid Greenmun won't sleep for a few days.
4 comments:
The to be nit-picky, but this:
Ryto becomes the first person ever to win the agency's top honor based on duty performed as a non-employee.
Should be this:
Ryto becomes the first person ever to be awarded the agency's top honor based on duty performed as a non-employee.
Word usage: Henry didn't "win" a contest, he was "awarded" a medal. That's the best way to remember it. Some people will take this VERY seriously, especially when describing war medals for example.
Correction: I hate to be nitpicky about it
(same poster, somehow my mobile device thought I meant "The" as I was typing "Hate")
I get your point. I had used the term "awarded" in the previous sentence, and didn't want to use in in consecutive sentences.
Thanks
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