Alameda Corridor Milestone

The Alameda Corridor -- the super rail line system designed to move cargo from the ports inland and  reduce truck traffic on local freeways-- reached a milestone recently, according to Progressive Railroading.com:

Earlier this month, the six-year-old Alameda Corridor marked a six-digit milestone. The Los Angeles-area intermodal corridor logged the 100,000th train to use the high-speed freight-rail expressway since it opened in April 2002.  The 20-mile corridor connects the ports of L.A. and Long Beach with downtown L.A. rail yards and the national rail system. The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority owns and governs the corridor, which includes a 10-mile, below-ground and triple-tracked mid-corridor trench shared by BNSF Railway Co. and Union Pacific Railroad via trackage rights.

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[P W LEE]

Responding to yesterday "how to get people taking mass transit". As you may have known, the average gas in the greater LA have passed $4.00 a gallon. In addition, according to the recent “reports” form MTA and other mass transit agencies indicated that ridership have increased significantly from month-to-month, averaging 2 – 4%. Believe you me, just wait when summer is in full swing, when the reformulate the gasoline. It will increase even more. I can see the gas going over $5.00 a gallon then. We will see a lot more people switching to take mass transit. No need to tell people “how to get people to take mass transit”. For me, I myself have been taking the Metrolink to work since 2001, even though my employer folk over only $30.00 a month. You know all the advantages: leave you can at the station and “let the other people do the driving”, “save our planet” and “save your sanity”, etc etc etc . . .