User:Truflip99/sandbox/Tide Light Rail

In the late 1980s, the Tidewater Transportation District Commission (TTDC) began producing several studies that examined the feasibility of expanding transit corridors between Norfolk and its neighboring cities of Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach; these included a study for the cost effectiveness of restoring passenger rail service in 1986 and a rail systems analysis in 1991. Four years later, TTDC pursued a Major Investment Study and in 1997, identified a locally preferred alternative for an 18 mi east–west light rail line between downtown Norfolk and the Virginia Beach oceanfront. In 1999, the Virginia Beach City Council asked residents in a referendum whether it should adopt a local ordinance to help develop and finance the light rail project. On November 2, Virginia Beach residents voted against the referendum, 56percent to 44percent.

Links

 * https://books.google.com/books?id=zx83AQAAMAAJ -- Norfolk-VA Beach
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Norfolk_Light_Rail_Transit_Project_Hampt/5yA3AQAAMAAJ -- Norfolk
 * https://gohrt.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Light-Rail-Project-Final-Report-090915.pdf
 * https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/funding/grant-programs/capital-investments/115196/2015-virginia-norfolk-tide-light-rail-project.pdf