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Sep 19, 2014

INFRASTRUCTURES * USA: Weather troubles - Trucks parking troubles

* Nevada - Washed-out Interstate 15 is truckers' nightmare
(Photo by John Locher / Associated Press: A bulldozer works on a flood-ravaged portion of Interstate 15 near Moapa, Nev) 
Las Vegas,NEV,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by JOHN M. GLIONNA - 12 Sept 2014: -- Mother Nature works in confounding ways: snow flurries in Phoenix, a balmy Christmas in Buffalo, and this week's catastrophic flood in the normally parched desert 50 miles north of this resort city... In what some term the area's worst storm in decades, a 2-mile-long stretch of Interstate 15 in rural Moapa was destroyed by 4 inches of rain that lashed the roadway in just an hour on Monday. The dying throes of Tropical Storm Norbert dumped as much rain on the area in 60 minutes as Las Vegas gets in a year... The mother of all road detours has come for thousands of vacationers, sightseers and long-distance truckers, including delays of eight hours or more, with vehicles diverted onto a gantlet of winding two-lane roads that squiggle into the cacti and scrub brush... Mario Gomez, an assistant engineer with the Nevada Department of Transportation said, the big trucks would be kept off the interstate until all four lanes reopen because there are several hilly stretches that would cause long lines behind lumbering 18-wheelers in low gear... 


* Pensilvania - I-81 group: Truck traffic will increase 50% by 2040. Group feels there isn't enough parking for truckers to rest

(Photo by Markell DeLoatch — Public OpinionI: 81 Corridor Coalition estimates that I-81 truck traffic will double in less than 25 years) Chambersburg,Franklin,PEN,USA -Public Opinion, by Jim Hook -17 Sept 2014: -- Truck traffic is increasing steadily on Interstate 81, and one group wants to know where the trucks will park at the end of the drivers' shifts... I-81, stretching 855 miles from Tennessee through New York, has an estimated 5,000 marked parking spaces for trucks. That includes truck stops and rest areas... Twice that number of trucks pass Chambersburg every day on I-81... The freight that trucks haul on Interstate 81 is projected to increase 50 percent by 2040, according to data from the Pennsylvania Statewide Freight Model... Kevin Cole, interim executive director of the I-81 Corridor Coalition, goes further. He estimates that I-81 truck traffic will double in less than 25 years — even with relief that railroads offer long-haul trucking... Truck parking becomes even more crucial as the widening of the Panama Canal promises to open ports on the East Coast to worldwide trade. The Harrisburg region is at the hub of the East's distribution network...

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