* California - Truckers call for dedicated truck lanes as freight expected to double
... With goods movement from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach expected to double in the next decade, logistics industry experts are looking at ways to address an expected tsunami of freight through the region’s already congested freeways and streets... Among the infrastructure improvement ideas being applauded by local truckers rolling through Southern California and the Inland Empire are efforts by transportation officials to widen the freeways, fix potholes and a proposal to introduce dedicated truck lanes... Dedicated truck toll lanes have been proposed by Southern California transportation officials, but to build them, according to SanBAG’s online post, the public cost is likely to exceed $5 billion, of which at least $1.2 billion would be for truck lanes within San Bernardino County... Transportation California, an industry-based advocacy group in Sacramento, has been advocating for additional investment for infrastructure expansion to address increased traffic in the years to come...
(Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images: Traffic congestion was the second-worst in the country in the greater Los Angeles area) -- San Bernardino, CAL, USA - S.B. Sun, by Neil Nisperos/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - 7 May 2016
** Georgia - Plans $2 Billion truck-only roadway to fight traffic bottleneck
--- Georgia plans to build two lanes limited to trucks along 38 miles of Interstate 75, a heavily travelled freight corridor south of Atlanta. It will be the largest truck-only project in the nation and is expected to cost $2 billion. When the roadway is completed – expected in 2030 – the state may consider adding additional truck-only lanes in the opposite direction... Truck-only lanes are usually reserved for short distances, such as moving heavy vehicles out of the way of faster car traffic climbing hills... No state has attempted what Georgia is doing without utilizing tolling or public-private highway building partnerships as a way to pay for the truck-only lanes, he said... Such lanes, in one of the most congested sections of the nation for freight, are badly needed, according to the trucking industry...
(Photo by Brian Hadden/Trucks.com - Commercial trucks approach the I-675 split on I-75 north in Georgia) -- Atlanta, GA, USA - Trucks.com, by CLARISSA HAWES - May 2, 2016Labels: infrastructures' plan
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