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* USA - L.A. County offers 'inland port' plan
A hub in the Antelope Valley that would use rail lines could relieve freeway congestion as the ports continue to handle more cargo
Los Angeles,CA,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Rong-Gong Lin II -July 12, 2007: -- L.A. County officials on Wednesday unveiled plans for an "inland port" in the Antelope Valley — a would-be hub more than 70 miles north of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that is aimed at reducing heavy truck congestion throughout the region's freeways... The proposal comes as officials project a 400% increase in goods movement through the ports over the next 30 years, with transportation experts predicting that all those extra big rigs would further clog freeways... Much of the cargo now is shipped by trucks on Southland freeways to warehouses and distribution facilities in the Inland Empire before it is distributed across the nation... But L.A. County officials want a piece of that action and see the Antelope Valley, with large amounts of vacant land and potential rail access, as an ideal site... The idea would be to transport cargo from the ports to Palmdale and Lancaster by rail, reducing reliance on big rigs...
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