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Column: Uniting Hampton Roads would maximize economic opportunity
Hampton Roads cities must stop competing against each other and start behaving as a single market, Sentara Health's Aubrey Layne writes in a guest column.
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Opinion: Investment, expansion enhance Port of Virginia’s benefits
Aubrey L. Layne is chairman of the Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners. One of the nation's preeminent port complexes is right here in our backyard. During the last two...
Aubrey Layne: Hampton Roads: Gateway to the Virginia and the world
HAMPTON ROADS could be the epicenter of world commerce with its deepwater ports and a vastly improved transportation network. Funding of the right projects using a data-driven system required by...
Getting the best mileage for our money
Sixty-seven hours is a long time. Long enough to take a vacation away from traffic. If you live in Northern Virginia, chances are you spend 67 hours or more a...
Speak up on Bay bridge-tunnel project
After more than a year of review and deliberation, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) Commission recently approved a resolution to begin the construction of a new parallel tunnel under the...
Public schools key in breaking the cycle
Bill Gates said, "I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act." In leadership positions that I have...
The status of regional transportation funding
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...
Move forward on transportation funding
As a member of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, I speak to various business, civic and community groups about transportation. I am often asked what is the "right" way to fund...
A transportation funding stategy for the future
The debate over transportation funding continues in Richmond this month during the general assembly session, but that conversation is changing. Since being appointed to the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), my...
Bumping along on our roads to ruin
In "Democracy in America," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that while Virginia received the first English colony in 1607, it was arguably the Pilgrims in 1620 who were the first people...