If Norfolk/Va.Beach really needed a "transportation project" like this wouldn't the existing bus service be overburdened???

Since anyone can post their vote, it is not necessary reflective of the desires of the voters in Virginia Beach. For all we know, some one in Yemen could have cast a vote in this poll.

Soooooooooooo.......How much 4 the transit police 24/7, new holding cells,etc,parking garages???????????? Oh yea,the gangsters R on the "honor systems"!!! LOL

This proposal has no merit!!!!!!!!!! All one needs to do is review the
experience other cities and communities have seen. These projects are
nothing more than sweet deals for the developers to the continued detriment of the overburdened taxpayers. Just another example of waste
very similar to the ridiculous and absurd "Trail Extension" at Rudy
Inlet Bridge at a cost to taxpayers of 1.2 million dollars when we have
a budget shortfall of 80 million.

There’s a lot of hype and speculation, but experience and history are the best guide for future predictions. Read about Charlottes light rail experience at http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_cha_2008-08a.htm
Excerpts. “last year- a huge fight, over public transit, - budget overruns and project glitches in light rail ,- What a difference a year makes. Flood of new transit riders- could reach its 2025 ridership goal in a year or two." Major economic development impact - adjacent transit-influenced real estate development -33 restaurants, 1,245 new housing units -annual tax revenues have risen from $240,000 to over $6 million. Electric transit brings energy savings. These benefits are what sold city leaders on light rail. Maybe we should go forward with regional cooperation and stop the blame game.

for tourists. I say bond it out and let the riders pay for it. I will never ever have the need to use it and it will not make one iota of difference in 264 traffic.
Explain how this benefits anyone except those along its path? Am I to drive 30 minutes from Elbow Road to ride 30 more to Norfolk?
This is a luxury, NOT a necessity.

If you believe in light rail, would you be willing to write a check for the cost to two taxpayers? With the Pilot pollees evenly divided, that would ensure that it could be built on voluntary money. After all, it is easy to spend other people's money... Not so easy to spend your own.

Of course, you'd also have to cover the operating expenses, minus revenue. But hey, if it makes money it would only be fair if you got your cut. So how about it? Willing to stroke that check?

Didn't I say NO WAY in a vote already, just because the City Leaders has changed [Does Not] change my mind one Bit. Can't wait to see the extra croweds at the ocean front in the summer { Don't forget No Cussing down there] [please read the posted signs] Maybe we can get a Light Rail Stop at the [Dairy Queen] and a short 3 hour trip and they can be back a the newly Closed Waterside, maybe HRT can fund Norfolk some money. Didnt I hear MT pays his Staff with grant funding and not operational cost. He needs to go back to his Golf Courses and play more golf

The light rail could be a valuable asset to Hampton Roads. Having lived in San Diego,Ca., where their rail system is fantastic, and they have many, many, people that ride it to work, to sports events, etc. Once it catches on here I think it will be a big success and help the horrible traffic problem that Hampton Roads experiences. Let's think about the tourists in the summer who would rather ride the light rail to places then to have to navigate through traffic. I'm all for continuing the program. I'll be riding it!!

Has anyone who has ever experienced the modern, fast, clean, safe transportations systems in Europe, who is not sold in the idea? And yes, they are all government subsidized and in part subsidized by gasoline taxes. European transportation works so well it almost wants to makes you give up car payments, insurance, inspections, catastrophic repair costs, traffic tickets, creepy car salesmen, and even death!