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Va. appoints new DRPT director
Tiffany Robinson is the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation’s new director, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday. Robinson succeeds Zach Trogdon, who has served as acting director since Jennifer DeBruhl retired July 1. Robinson has almost 15 years of experience in state and local government, according to a DRPT news release issued Tuesday. She […]
Raleigh-to-Richmond rail project gains steam
Preliminary construction is underway for the Richmond-to-Raleigh passenger rail project, an estimated 162-mile route along the defunct CSX Transportation S-Line corridor that will speed up travel between the capitals of North Carolina and Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and the Northeast U.S. “We have basically funded work to advance all of the preliminary engineering […]
An overview of Hampton Roads
Home to 1.79 million people across 17 localities, Hampton Roads is Virginia’s second most populous region, just behind Northern Virginia. It also boasts the commonwealth’s biggest city by population: Virginia Beach, with 457,900 residents. Nearby Norfolk is the densest locality in the region, with 4,467 people per square mile, according to 2020 U.S. Census data. […]
The other tunnel project
Despite complications including a run-in with an abandoned anchor, workers are now back at it, constructing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel’s second tunnel across the Thimble Shoal Channel. As of July, the bridge-tunnel’s expansion from one tunnel to two is set to be finished in 2027 — five years later than expected and 10 years after work […]
All aboard in Hampton Roads
Amtrak Virginia — the state-supported Amtrak rail service — has been experiencing record ridership for more than a year, with passengers in Newport News and Norfolk making up the lion’s share of the traffic. In March, with the state recording a high of 123,658 train riders, 79,158 came from Norfolk and Newport News. In June, […]
Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List
Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fifth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor. Executives are listed in alphabetical order by industry. Below you will find links […]
2024 Virginia 500: Transportation
DEVON C. ANDERS PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP, MOUNT CRAWFORD MONICA BACKMON CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY RYAN BANAS ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND HRBT EXPANSION PROJECT DIRECTOR, HNTB, NORFOLK JUDY BARRETT PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA MARITIME ASSOCIATION; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TOWNEBANK, NORFOLK P. DALE BENNETT PR[...]
A practical plan for U.S. 220
Picture an hourglass: Flip the timer over, and the sand at the top funnels through a small opening to pool in the wider receptacle at its bottom. Now imagine if that hole in the middle were wider; sand would flow more freely. That’s how business leaders in Martinsville see the U.S. Route 220 corridor between […]
LAKSHMI WILLIAMS
Lakshmi Williams’ 30-plus-year career as a lawyer has run the gamut in terms of industries she’s worked with, including software, nonprofit, energy, and transportation. But she finds her role as general counsel and corporate secretary at toll road operator Transurban North America in Tysons, which she’s held for nearly a dozen years, to be particularly […]
Assembled with care
If you’re trying to visualize what powers manufacturing growth around Roanoke these days, picture 3D-printed helicopter blades and robotics, not old-style grommets. Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing produces objects by creating a series of consecutive layers, as opposed to “subtractive” manufacturing, which removes material to carve out an object. Advanced manufacturing c[...]
Metro passes $4.8B budget for FY25
Metro’s board of directors on Thursday passed a $4.8 billion capital and operations budget for fiscal year 2025, which avoids massive service cuts, although fares will increase by 12.5% beginning July 1. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which oversees the Metrorail and Metrobus public transportation systems, had warned of “catastrophic” cuts to service because [...]
HRBT expansion’s first tunnel boring is complete
Mary, the tunnel boring machine that has been paving the way for the expanded Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, hit a milestone Wednesday when she finished the first of twin tunnels that are part of the bridge-tunnel’s expansion. Launched from the HRBT’s South Island a year ago, the $70 million custom-built tunnel boring machine has been busy — […]
