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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:13:10 -0500
- From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Casey to open state railroads to dbl stack...
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- From a local paper, without permission:
- HARRISBURG (UPI) -- Double-stack railroad containers would be
- free to move across Pennsylvania, creating thousands of new jobs, if a
- plan announced by Gov. Robert P. Casey Friday is approved by the
- legislature.
- At a Capitol news conference, Casey announced that a deal has been
- struck with two railroad companies on a $77 million dollar plan to
- remove obstacles to use of the giant containers.
- Under the proposal, 84 structures would be raised or cleared on the
- Conrail line running east-west across the state. Another 25 projects
- would be undertaken on the north-south Canadian-Pacific/Delaware &
- Hudson line runing from New York to Reading.
- The state would invest $34 million in the project.
- However, the state legislature must agree to rewrite some budget
- language before the money becomes available.
- Casey said the double-height containers are the "fastest growing
- segment of the transportation industry" and that delay in fixing the
- track-paths would put Pennsylvania at a competitive disadvantage.
- "This project is as important to our transportation network in the
- 1990's as our inter-state highways were in the 1950's," Casey said.
- According to Casey's estimates, the entire project would mean over
- 22,000 new jobs in the state by the year 2000. Some of the jobs would
- come directly from the construction work involved. Other jobs would flow
- from transportation cost savings to private businesses.
- "We are either going to join and lead this revolution or be left
- behind," Casey said.
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