DRPT’s vision. Blue lines are light rail.

When I put together the BeyondDC Hampton Roads Transit Vision last week, I had no idea that Virginia’s Department of Rail and Public Transportation adopted a similar vision last year.

DRPT’s official vision is shown at right and is available for download. It more or less duplicates BeyondDC’s Virginia Beach and Naval Station extensions of the light rail starter line, but veers dramatically from my plans from there. Absent is any line to the airport, but present are lines to the peninsula, and a more logical Portsmouth connection.

Good on DRPT for such a forward-thinking document.

Tomorrow BeyondDC will share some more of DRPT’s recent planning work, this time from Northern Virginia.