Hampton Roads Transit is moving its downtown Portsmouth transfer hub on County Street to make room for the city’s demolition and reconstruction of a municipal parking garage.

The new location for the transfer point for six HRT routes is on Crawford Street, between Columbia and King streets. HRT said the transfer hub, where riders can move between routes to get to their destinations, serves 800 passengers every weekday.

The six affected routes are the 41, 43, 45, 47, 50 and 980. Most of those serve downtown and outlying Portsmouth; Route 980 is one of the eight active 757 Express routes, going from downtown Norfolk to Nansemond Parkway in Suffolk.

Portsmouth is in the process of demolishing and rebuilding the three-level County Street Garage due to safety concerns. A future proposed replacement six-level, 700-space garage will take up roughly two-thirds of the lot — leaving room for a walkway and green space that may be developed later.

At an Aug. 8 city council work session, city engineer and Interim Deputy City Manager James Wright told council members the project was on track to begin construction in September and finish work on an interim, surface-only lot in March. 

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