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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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The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System of the past 50 years is now nearly
complete. Over the same 50 year period U.S. railroad infrastructure has
been in steady decline. Our economy is good and the demands for freight
shipping are steadily increasing, beyond what the highways can handle.
Federal and state transportation dollars are overwhelmingly poured into
roads. Unfortunately, the "growth
of (rail) traffic is more rapid than the rail industry’s capability
to expand using internally generated funds..."
View
pdf of Dave Foster's full statement to the Surface Transportation
Board Public Hearing, "Rail Capacity and Infrastructure Requirements"
- delivered on April 11, 2007.
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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
Maximize Rail/ Minimize Road Expansion
RESOURCES
-VA Gen. Assembly
-Analysis & Reports
-EIS Process
-PPTA Process
-Media Contacts
-Links
-Contact Us
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