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Futuristic Shuttle * USA - Could eventually carry freight from border
Hidalgo County asks Texas A&M developer to consider U.S. 281 as first route for technology
Edinburg,TX,USA -The Monitor, by Jared Janes -March 21, 2009: -- The idea of moving freight through an underground tunnel from the Mexican border to points north was the sort of futuristic concept that was ultimately determined to be technologically feasible but economically moot.,, Excavating a tunnel hundreds of miles long was found to be too cost prohibitive to ever make it off the drawing board, said Steve Roop, one of a team of researchers at Texas A&M University's Texas Transportation Institute who were funded by Congress in 1999 to examine the possibility of underground freight movement... Hidalgo County and other government and business interests, meanwhile, support the project as an economic development tool... Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas said the shuttle could draw more manufacturing companies to the border by offering them a reliable transportation alternative that is cheaper and faster than trucks... More than 1,300 heavy trucks travel along U.S. 281 each day, with that number expected to double by 2030, Salinas said. By then, the Universal Freight Shuttle could be up and running, moving goods from the border using renewable energy and creating zero emissions...
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