According to this morning's Virginian-Pravda (not on their website), last night the Portsmouth City Council voted 6-0 to request that the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) include light rail in the plans for a second tube for the Midtown Tunnel. One Councilman was absent.
Norfolk is constructing, Portsmouth wants in, while Newport News is planning it's first segment. Notice the missing name? Yeah: Virginia Beach. We hope to be working on that one....
3 comments:
How about two new tubes for the Midtown? One would be for traffic (for 2 lanes per direction) and the other exclusive light rail. I'd support that any day
A third tube would drastically raise the price.
All Portsmouth is asking for is that the 2nd tube be engineered to accomodate rail - as well as vehicle - traffic. Common sense.
alright
Wasn't sure how it would be configured. The "second tube should include light rail" does make much more sense.
This is what I get for only seeing tunnels that only carry two lanes of traffic.
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