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To: Doctor Stochastic

Thanks for the info. I can be sold on the need for better roads and shipping throughout America. I cant be sold on exporting and importing all these vital goods from a country that is as corrupt and unfriendly to America as Mexico is.

Lets improve our ports first.


32 posted on 06/26/2006 8:48:37 AM PDT by winodog (Its the constitution, dummy.)
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To: winodog
I can be sold on the need for better roads and shipping throughout America. I cant be sold on exporting and importing all these vital goods from a country that is as corrupt and unfriendly to America as Mexico is. Lets improve our ports first.

BTTT!

American jobs are more important than what this globalist president has in store for us.

33 posted on 06/26/2006 9:05:56 AM PDT by janetgreen
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To: winodog
Lets improve our ports first.
Agree that their capabilites need to be improved/expanded. But the ground transportation is still a problem today and long range plans need to be devised today to begin the process so that the loads can be handle as the ports improve.

Here's a little tidbit about Tower 55 in the DFW area that is a huge bottleneck for rail transportation and will only get worse unless changes are made. This is a portion of the Texas transportation problem and is being looked at as port of the TTC concept.

Tower 55
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/jack_z_smith/14074927.htm
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The outlying freight rail corridor could help relieve congestion at Tower 55, a rail hub on the southeast edge of downtown Fort Worth where the north-south Burlington Northern Santa Fe and east-west Union Pacific tracks meet at grade to form one of the worst train choke points in the nation. ("At grade" means that the tracks intersect on the same level rather than one passing over the other.)

The congestion at Tower 55 is akin to the nightmarish auto and truck gridlock that would occur if there were a traffic stoplight at Interstates 35W and 30 in downtown Fort Worth, said Mike Sims, a COG senior program manager for transportation.

"Most rail people say [Tower 55] is the busiest rail intersection at grade west of the Mississippi," Sims said
Some reports say that Tower 55 has as many as 120 trains a day on it's busiest days and on average is occupied 70% of the time.
34 posted on 06/26/2006 9:07:33 AM PDT by deport
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To: winodog
Lets improve our ports first.

Are you nuts? We can barely get our longshoremen to use bar-code scanners.

39 posted on 06/26/2006 11:24:11 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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