Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization

It was unanimous. All 30 tables of participants in last year's Reality Check conference on the region's future said transportation was a key issue to tackle. Twenty-seven, or 90 percent, supported expanding mass transit. On Thursday, about 150 people...

This year's landmark transportation-funding package will pour billions of dollars more into state coffers in the next several years, and local officials are wasting little time making plans for Hampton Roads' share. Some of the money appears likely to...

CHESAPEAKE — Regional leaders discussed how to make the most of transportation money available to them Thursday at the board retreat of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization. With a little leverage, the estimated $200 million in...

The region may see as much as $10 billion in new transportation revenue during the next 20 years, but the prospect of tolls will continue to loom large over Hampton Roads' most expensive projects. That reality was underscored Thursday when a boardroom...

On Thursday regional leaders will huddle for a nearly four-hour retreat in a cramped board room to discuss how they'll spend an estimated $200 million per year to alleviate road congestion. Although they won't make any firm decisions, the talks will...

I became involved with regional and statewide transportation issues in July 2009 as a result of my appointment to the Commonwealth Transportation Board as the Hampton Road representative. Transportation revenues had not been raised in over 20 years and...

Full disclosure The FBI is looking into the relationship between Gov. Bob McDonnell and the CEO of the food supplement firm Star Scientific. The inquiry has to do with money that Jonnie R. Williams Sr. gave to the governor and the question of whether...

Since being appointed to the board of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization in May 2012, Sen. Tommy Norment, R-James City County, has not made an appearance at a board meeting, despite being a major player on transportation issues in...

Hampton Mayor Molly Joseph Ward, chairwoman of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization, got it partly right. Her "congestion pricing" assumes there is enough discretion travel during peak travel hours in our tunnels that a small toll...

Recent events — particularly new transportation legislation [and] sequestration — remind us regionalism is becoming more and more a fact of life. Some like to say Hampton Roads is not a region and that it citizens don't want to be one,...

Like a victim tied to buzz saw table in an old movie melodrama, federal, state and local agencies and departments, and a host of businesses and nonprofit organizations are watching with alarm as budget blades churn toward them. On Friday automatic...

Dennis Heuer, the Virginia Department of Transportation Hampton Roads district administrator under fire since last weekend's traffic nightmare, was not in his normal seat Thursday at the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization's monthly meeting...