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HOT TOPICS
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I-81 Freight Rail Study and Norfolk Southern Cresent Corridor compared and contrasted in new paper for CTB
11/18/07
Because both are rail intermodal efforts
affecting the I-81 Corridor, there has been public confusion over
what these two projects are and how they differ. In a new paper
prepared for the Commonwealth Transportation Board meeting in Roanoke
on November 7, RAIL Solution details the differences and highlights
some curious ways the new NS direction departs from the vision of
its own CEO, Wick Moorman (2nd item below).
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Response to
"I-81 Crescent Corridor" Initiative
7/9/07
RAIL Solution has been asked our views on
Norfolk Southern's recently announced "I-81 Crescent Corridor"
initiative. To understand its significance, one has to separate what's
old from what's new.
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Norfolk Southern's
I-81 Strategy
10/19/06
Norfolk Southern President, Chairman, and
CEO Charles "Wick" Moorman made a major address at Hotel
Roanoke, which he called a "coming out party" for the
railroad's I-81 strategy.
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A Multi-State Plan Needs Multi-State Involvement
RAIL
Solution is reaching out to Tennesseans,
Pennsylvanians, Marylanders, and
West Virginians.
“Our neighbors need to know
that the H-1581 process offers opportunity
for significant transport- ation
improvements at less cost to taxpayers,
highway users and our environment
up and down the I-81 Corridor. These
citizens need to be pressing their
transportation planners to gain
access to the intermodal rail planning
process.”
Dave Foster
RAIL Solution Exec. Dir.
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Implement the rail component of a balanced transportation
system to increase options for freight capacity, maintain
economic competitiveness, and avoid air quality and congestion problems
as freight shipments grow. HB
1581 — the Interstate Route 81 Corridor: Diversion of Truck
Traffic bill — passed the
General Assembly unanimously in March, 2006.
Governor Kaine signed it into law in May.
The law requires:
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Commonwealth of Virginia through the Secretary of Transportation
and the Rail Advisory Board, to complete a comprehensive feasibility
plan to define the conditions that would be necessary to divert
the maximum amount feasible of the long-haul, through-truck
freight traffic to intermodal rail in the Interstate Route 81
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This act builds
upon the I-81 Corridor Multi-state Transportation Planning Initiative
which the General Assembly passed in 2005, but VDOT summarily
ignored. |
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VDOT should terminate
negotiations with STAR Solutions and instead initiate competitive
bidding for spot improvements to I-81 — such as climbing lanes
and redesigned exits, which will improve safety and relieve congestion.
Data should support the need and type of each improvement, many of
which are identified in earlier VDOT studies and in VDOT's I-81 Corridor
Environmental Impact Study. |
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Use the highway's
median for improvements to limit the encroachment of the
road on private property and to avoid further impacts on adjacent
landowners, communities, farmland, battlefields, and tourism. |
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Step up law enforcement
to significantly improve public safety. |
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NEXT MEETING:
June 7th at 10am
Salem, VA
OF INTEREST
CSX's Innovative I-95 Corridor Proposal
Rail: Perpetually Underfunded
2006 Recap
PROBLEMS
with the
Tier 1 EIS
-Overview of DEIS.
-RS Response
-VDOT I-81 Site
-Write to VDOT>
-EIS Process Overview
Concerns for:
-Local Leaders
-Business Leaders
-Historic Sites
-Railroad Fans
-Environmentals
MEDIA COVERAGE
-Editorials/News
-Letters to Editor
LEARN MORE
RAIL Solution's I-81 Transportation Issues & Priorities
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RESOURCES
-VA Gen. Assembly
-Analysis & Reports
-EIS Process
-PPTA Process
-Media Contacts
-Links
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