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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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All reports are by RAIL Solution unless otherwise
noted
Frequently
Asked Questions: Rail vs. STAR
RAIL
Solution's I-81 Transportation Issues & Priorities
Maximize Rail/Minimize Road Expansion
RAIL
Solution Action Points
The
Shenandoah & Southwest Citizen RAIL
Solution Broadsheet, Summer 2005
Summary
of RAIL Solution's Response to the DEIS
Jan 11, 2006
Full
RS Response to the DEIS [PDF] Jan 12,
2006
Draft
Purpose & Need by VDOT, [10MB PDF]
Jan 31, 2005
I-81
Planning Compact
PPTA
Bridge Funding
Car
Tolls
Rail
Must Play a Significant Role
Talking
Points on a Virginia Rail Authority by
John Raup, Virginians for High Speed Rail
I-81
Considerations for Norfolk Southern
Aug 11, 2004
I-81
Planning Compact Whitepaper
Letter
from Manufacturers
June 8, 2005
PPTA
Report by Southern Environmental Law
Center Statewide Rail Development
RAIL
Solution Comments on VDOT's I-81 Summary of Scoping Comments
Aug 11, 2004
Virginia,
in the I-81 corridor, emulate the Swiss!
Report on the Transportation Connectivity Symposium held on June 5, 2004.
Road
to Ruin (The I-81 project ranks
second in the report of 27 road projects that will drain federal tax dollars,
harm communities, and damage the natural environment.) Taxpayers For Common
Sense and Friends of the Earth, June 3,
2004
More
Highways, More Pollution: Road Building and Air Pollution in America's
Cities by PIRG Report, March 2004
Mile
Post by Mile Post Analysis of Impact on Surrounding Land,
Excel chart, Jan 26, 2004
Response
to Fluor and STAR proposals Jan 21,
2004
Response
to VDOT on PPTA January 16, 2004
Report
on VDOT-PPTA Advisory Committee Meeting
by Kathy Holm, Valley Conservation Council, Nov 14, 2003
A
Critical Look at the Transportation Future of Southwest Virginia and the
Shenandoah Valley with an Analysis of STAR and Fluor Proposals to VDOT
RAIL Solution, Octr 11, 2003
Freight
Study [PDF] by the American Assoc.
of State Highway Transportation Officials, 2003
Virginia
Rail Plan [PDF] by the Virginia High
Speed Rail Development Committee, 2001
Rail
Use Study by VDOT, 2000
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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
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RAIL Solution's I-81 Transportation Issues & Priorities
Maximize Rail/ Minimize Road Expansion
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