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'Inland port' * USA - Plan to ease truck congestion sputters
Riverside,CA,USA -Press-Enterprise (subscription), by PHIL PITCHFORD -May 4, 2007: -- Efforts to develop a large "inland port" to receive containers of imported goods by train directly from Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors -- without using trucks that add congestion to local freeways -- have run aground, local transportation officials said Friday... But the idea still could work using a group of smaller facilities sprinkled around the two Inland counties, experts said at a forum hosted by the Leonard Transportation Center at Cal State San Bernardino... Moving the unpacking centers inland could mean removing tens of thousands of truck trips off the freeways between the coastal ports and the warehouse-heavy Mira Loma area, said Dan Smith, a principal with The Tioga Group, which is studying the issue for the Southern California Association of Governments, a regional planning group...
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