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REPORT * USA - More Freight Rail Could Reduce Road Congestion
State and national policymakers are missing an important part of the solution to reducing traffic gridlock: putting more trucks on trains, according to the author of a soon-to-be-released report from The Heartland Institute
Chicago,Ill,USA -The Heartland Institute's: Budget & Tax News, by Steve Stanek -October 1, 2007: -- ... "If we could get more work that trucks are doing onto rails, that would be good from a traffic congestion perspective," said Wendell Cox, a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and principal of Wendell Cox Consultancy, an international public policy firm that specializes in transportation issues... "The trucking industry has done a great job," Cox said. "They're very productive, and the safety record is incredible when you consider they're hauling double trailers and the average long-distance truck occupies the space of three-and-a-half cars. But this is the problem. Given our tight road capacity in urban areas, we cannot afford to see truck traffic double. In the long run, trucks are going to be a much bigger issue with traffic congestion"...
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