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Viaduct
$13.6 million
Viaduct construction between Harbor Park and Norfolk State University. Includes a 3,400-foot elevated structure and relocating Holt Street.
Status 97.2 percent complete
West end track
$42.4 million
Laying track from Harbor Park through downtown to the medical center. Includes a light-rail bridge parallel to Brambleton Avenue over Smith Creek.
Status: 70.5 percent complete
East end track
$40.9 million
Norfolk Southern right of way between Norfolk State and Newtown Road. Includes bridges over Broad Creek and Norfolk Southern tracks.
Status: 46.9 percent complete
Shop and storage yard
$11 million
Light-rail vehicle storage and maintenance facility near Norfolk State University.
Status: 10.3 percent complete
What's next
Light-rail stations. Park and Ride lots.
Overall
$288 million project.
Electrical work
$27.7 million
At left, crews work to erect overhead electrical wires to power the light-rail cars. The contract also includes poles, sub-stations, grade crossings and gates.
Status: 44.3 percent complete
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Hold On
With the light rail making progress each of had better watch our wallets since there will be cost over runs not expected and they will need to find the money some place why not the residents and employees of the City. Of course the money spent on the light rail could not be used to improve the current roads which have pot holes that are several years old and when they do fill them properly a month later they come to resurface the road. The money for light rail could have been used for better things than putting a light rail to no where. It would have been better to have gone from the airport to downtown and the out to the ocean front.
People in Hampton Roads love sitting in traffic
It doesn't matter what "solution" is proposed, nobody likes it. Light rail, heavy rail, busing, horses and buggies, red wagons with dogs tied to them. If it moves it's bad. People here like to sit still every morning, every mid-day and every evening. And let's not forget weekends. Moving is bad. That's why people here complain about anything related to light rail or "mass transit". They just hate it. Welcome to the 19th century.
hmm
FAIL
Northeaster
I just wonder, how much of the light rail will be underwater in downtown Norfolk when the storms come through?
Flooding cost
How much is it going to cost the tax payers to repair light rail damage when the area floods?
Five days ago the whole area over here was flooded, including their construction zone. How much extra is it going to cost to repair any damage that may have occurred, and what will we have to pay in the future?