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Infraestructure - USA - Massive ports, rail and highway plan nears agreement
LOS ANGELES,Cal,USA -Sacramento Bee, by LAURA MECOY -16 Apr 2006: -- Every day, the 300-foot cranes at the Port of Los Angeles remove containers of toys, clothes, and other goods from Asian ships and place them on American trucks and trains for delivery to consumers around the country... At the Los Angeles port and the neighboring Port of Long Beach, these cranes handle 40 percent of all shipments to the U.S., making this the largest port complex in the nation and the fifth largest in the world... Trade through the two ports generates some 500,000 jobs, and the number of jobs could double over the next 25 years, according to the Southern California Association of Governments... The $222 billion plan Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled in January included $15 billion in rail improvements, roads and other port-related public works... A task force convened by the Schwarzenegger administration has determined more is needed... Its draft recommendations call for extending the Alameda Corridor east of Los Angeles, expanding cargo-loading facilities and building new bridges, new rail lines, new freeway interchanges and new freeway lanes...
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