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	Clash of Long Beach port, 4 cities may endanger Alameda Corridor. - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Alameda Corridor is a planned $1.8 billion, 18-mile corridor that would consolidate rail and truck traffic traveling between the ports and downtown Los Angeles warehousing facilities, factories and rail yards.
		The Alameda Corridor would ease this congestion, but the ports are not doing their best to get the project off the ground as quickly as possible, Robles said.
		In addition, the internal strife among the corridor authority's board members, together with the months of haggling between the ports and Union Pacific Railroad Co. over fees to be charged for using the corridor, doesn't look good to federal politicians, Hicks said.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-15720151.html (879 words)

	High Priority Corridors @ AARoads.com: Alameda Corridor (Corridor 22)
		Alameda Street Widening - this road parallel to the railroad corridor will be be "widened from four to six lanes with new left-turn pockets." Caltrans does not currently plan to take this street into the state highway system, even though a freeway is still proposed for the Alameda Street corridor.
		An extension to the Alameda Corridor is Corridor 34, Alameda Corridor East/Southwest Passage, from East Los Angeles (which is the northern terminus of Alameda Corridor) through Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties, to termini at Barstow in San Bernardino County and Coachella in Riverside County.
		First, the corridor is able to handle 200 million tons of cargo, which is double the amount fed through the Alameda Corridor prior to the reconstruction activities.
	www.aaroads.com /high-priority/corr22.html (1025 words)

	Alameda Corridor, USA
		The Alameda Corridor was built by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA), a joint powers authority governed by the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
		The Alameda Corridor is designed to accommodate the 100 daily train trips to and from the ports projected for 2020, with trains averaging 30-40 mph.
		The Alameda Corridor was funded through a unique blend of public and private sources, including $1.16 billion in revenue bonds sold by ACTA, a $400 million loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation, $394 million from the ports and $347 million in grants administered by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
	www.railwaypeople.com /rail-projects/alameda-corridor-usa-33.html (2023 words)

	FHWA Freight Management and Operations - Review of Environmental Factors - Appendix E – Alameda Corridor
		The operation of the Alameda Corridor is estimated to result in substantial impacts at two intersections in 2020.
		Prior to the re-initiation of the Alameda Corridor EIS by the FHWA and FRA, the COE and the Port of Los Angeles/Los Angeles Harbor Department prepared an EIS/EIR for the modification of the Port of Los Angeles Master Plan.
		The Alameda Corridor EIS assumed that these projects would be in place for the purposes of the Alameda Corridor project, and were therefore also part of the No Build Alternative.
	ops.fhwa.dot.gov /freight/freight_analysis/env_factors/env_fact_app_e7.htm (3612 words)

	Secretary Mineta Hails Opening of Alameda Corridor As Key Intermodal Facility for Boosting Economy, Enhancing Safety, ...
		James Hankla, the chairman of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA), presided at the ceremony.
		The Alameda Corridor improves rail and highway access to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach by consolidating rail service parallel to Alameda and improving Alameda Streets.
		At the north end of the corridor are three principal projects: The new Los Angeles River Bridge, dedicated in 1998, replaced a single-track bridge with a three-track structure.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /pressroom/fhwa0209.htm (588 words)

	Alameda Corridor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alameda Corridor (purple) was built mostly on the former Southern Pacific Railroad line to the ports, which became part of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996.
		The Alameda Corridor is a 20 mile (32 km) freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (AAR reporting mark ATAX), directly connecting the national rail system near downtown Los Angeles, California to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, running parallel to Alameda Street.
		Plans also exist for an Alameda Corridor East along UP track through the San Gabriel Valley, which would connect the massive UP yards in Vernon and Commerce to existing or newly constructed marshalling yards near San Bernardino, and thereafter to major railyards in Barstow and Coachella.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alameda_Corridor (381 words)

	Railway Technology - Alameda Corridor - Route for Heavy Trains
		The central feature of the Alameda Corridor is a 33ft deep trench, running for 10 miles parallel to Alameda Street from downtown LA to ports on the Pacific Ocean coast.
		This is the centrepiece of the Alameda Corridor, and the largest contract to be awarded.
		The centerpiece of the Alameda Corridor is this 33m deep cutting, which takes the line straight into the ports without causing congestion on the surface.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/alameda (1511 words)

	TSA -- [ Alameda Corridor Fact Sheet ]
		Since April 15, 2002, TSA lines have implemented a pass-through of Alameda Corridor charges to their shipper accounts at the same, revenue-neutral levels as those charged to them by the railroads.
		Specifically, shippers receive benefits as a result of the Alameda Corridor, including faster gate clearance and shorter transit times between downtown rail yards and the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor, and decreased traffic levels in the harbor vicinity, especially during peak commute times.
		A: The Alameda Corridor surcharge is applied to all rail intermodal moves to and from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, irrespective of whether rail or truck is used to shuttle the container between the harbor and the inland rail head.
	www.tsacarriers.org /fs_alameda.html (667 words)

	Civil Engineering Magazine - September 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This trench is the most distinctive feature of the Alameda Corridor, but the north and south ends of the project, which link the trench to respectively the downtown rail yards and the ports, are just as impressive.
		The Alameda Corridor has often been referred to as a dream project because it includes a little bit of everything: passenger and freight railroads, roadway redesigns, daunting geotechnical challenges, innovative financing, several different bridge designs for both motor vehicles and trains, participation by numerous agencies, and a large metropolitan setting.
		The Alameda Corridor project is expected to reduce automobile and truck emissions by 54 percent along the corridor because vehicles won’t be idling while they are waiting for trains to cross streets.
	www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/ceonline02/0902feat.html (4844 words)

	Metro Investment Report - Alameda Corridor Goes Full-Steam Ahead, but Goods Movement Needs Billions More
		After four years of operations, the Alameda Corridor, a 15-mile grade-separated rail line connecting the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Downtown L.A., has assumed a large share of the region’s goods movement burden.
		The Alameda Corridor, in conjunction with Caltrans, has its eye on one specific project, the SR 47 project, which is in the environmental process now and will be cleared by the end of the year.
		One of the advantages the Alameda Corridor had and the region should consider in the advancement of the multiple projects that will come out of this bond measure was to focus the effort through a single-purpose entity that is charged simply with the construction and delivery of projects.
	www.metroinvestmentreport.com /mir/?module=displaystory&story_id=359&format=html (2100 words)

	Staement of Janice Hahn, Sept. 25, 2002
		By eliminating more than 200 at-grade railroad crossings, the Alameda Corridor is projected to reduce emissions from idling trucks and automobiles by 54 percent, slash delays at railroad crossings by 90 percent and cut noise pollution by 90 percent.
		The Alameda Corridor not only creates a more efficient way to distribute cargo, but it also boosts the regional and national economies by keeping the ports competitive and capable of generating additional economic growth.
		The Alameda Corridor project benefited from a Department of Transportation willing to undertake risk and provide loan terms that were not available on a commercial basis.
	www.senate.gov /comm/environment_and_public_works/general/107th/Hahn_092502.htm (2806 words)

	Alameda Corridor reports impact on air quality [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers]
		LONG BEACH, Calif. -- As the Alameda Corridor celebrates its third year in operation, the public agency that governs the expressway connecting Southland ports to Los Angeles plans to release a report that shows the line's effect on air pollution and traffic congestion.
		The corridor authority is also proposing a series of truck depots in Commerce and the Inland Empire to mesh with a plan to open container terminals at night.
		The corridor is being used at roughly 40 percent of its capacity, but officials have long said it was designed to meet future rail demand.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/headline.asp?id=13332 (939 words)

	Alameda Corridor’s train traffic rises 15 percent in 2006
		The Alameda Corridor continued to be a key southern California intermodal route last year.
		A trade impact study recently released by ACTA and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which are served by the corridor, shows the ports handle more than 40 percent of the nation’s total containerized import traffic and 24 percent of exports.
		Since the Alameda Corridor opened in April 2002 as a four-lane freight-rail expressway between the ports and downtown L.A. rail yards, the route’s cargo volume has shot up 106 percent, ACTA said.
	www.progressiverailroading.com /freightnews/article.asp?id=10424 (205 words)

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		At the same time, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) released a study saying that in the three years since the corridor started operating, it has reduced the pollution coming out of the ports by tons — 2,371 fewer tons of carbon monoxide and 49 fewer tons of particulate matter were released into the air.
		When the Alameda Corridor was designed, most of the container cargo that came into the ports went to rail yards south of downtown Los Angeles, where the entire container was transferred to other trains going to a final destination.
		One thing that has hurt usage of the Alameda Corridor is that the trains are going to downtown while shippers want the goods to end up in the Inland Empire.
	www.gazettes.com /alameda04182005.html (711 words)

	Articles on the Alameda Corridor
		The corridor, which is expected to be finished in 2002, will allow trains to run along a concrete trench for 10 miles, with a series of overpasses to eliminate traffic congestion.
		Alameda Corridor officials argue that the long-term benefits of the project--increasing rail speeds by up to 40 mph--outweigh the temporary problems.
		Alameda Street and the at-grade section of the railroad corridor will be overhauled, with new pavement, track, overpasses, bridges and grade crossings.
	www.calstatela.edu /faculty/lgarret/096/corridor.htm (5312 words)

	SANBAG Regional Planning: Goods Movement
		Under construction now is the Alameda Corridor, a 20-mile freight rail path from the ports to downtown L.A. Construction of the Alameda Corridor, a 20-mile freight rail path from the ports to downtown L.A., was completed in April 2002.
		The Alameda Corridor is a completely “grade separated” facility – at no point do train tracks and surface streets intersect.
		Plans are underway for construction of the Alameda Corridor East, a 55-mile grade-separated facility that will follow Union Pacific lines from east L.A. to the Colton Crossing and the BNSF lines from L.A. to San Bernardino and Barstow via Riverside.
	www.sanbag.ca.gov /planning/regional_goodsmvmt_alameda.html (639 words)

	Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition Wins Railroad Jobs
		By September, the Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition (ACJC) was 40 members strong and had enlisted the aid of the Employment Law Center in San Francisco.
		The group targeted the Alameda Corridor Project as a potential source of good jobs for low-income persons residing in communities and neighborhoods along the 20-mile route of the Corridor Project that cuts through some of the most economically depressed low-income communities of the Los Angeles basin.
		ACJC members began attending Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) meetings in large numbers to press their issues, including access to jobs language that would assure employment for unemployed residents.
	www.nhi.org /online/issues/100/organize.html (831 words)

	October 1998 Focus - Los Angeles County Counts on Superpave Mix To Handle Overloaded Trucks
		The $2 billion Alameda Corridor project in the Los Angeles area poses a huge challenge for the State and local highway agencies involved in the project—namely, to build a pavement designed to carry 41 million equivalent single-axle loads (ESALs)* over 20 years, a traffic load many times higher than most highway projects.
		The Alameda Corridor project will increase capacity and reduce congestion on the truck and rail links to the neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest port complex in the country.
		The Alameda Corridor project will consolidate the rail lines to the port, remove 200 at-grade rail crossings that delay car and truck traffic, and expand and reconstruct 35.5 km (22 mi) of Alameda Street, the main highway to the port complex.
	www.tfhrc.gov /focus/archives/fcs1098/alameda.htm (774 words)

	AEHS Magazine- August 2001: Special International Issue
		The Alameda Corridor Transportation Project (ACTP) is a consolidated railroad link between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (the Ports) and the regional and national rail systems linking the nation.
		The Alameda Corridor will dramatically improve railroad and highway access to the Ports by consolidating over 90 miles of rail with 200 at-grade roadway crossings into a single, 20-mile high-capacity and fully grade separated rail corridor linking the Ports with the national railroad system originating near downtown Los Angeles.
		From a national perspective, the Alameda Corridor provides the efficient and cost-effective transportation capacity necessary for the United State to capitalize on the economic growth of the Pacific Rim.
	www.aehsmag.com /issues/2001/august/comprehensive.htm (3097 words)

	Freight Rail Project \| Alameda Corridor Trench Project \| Portland Cement Association (PCA)
		The new Alameda Corridor, which serves the ports, will initially handle 60 trains per day and have the potential to accommodate 100 trains per day when a third track is added in the future.
		Travel speeds in the new corridor are two times greater that when the line was situated at street level.
		Alameda designers chose several contiguous bored pile configurations based on the conditions of the site.
	www.cement.org /transit/tr_cs_alameda.asp (829 words)

	Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority - Newsroom, Fact Sheet
		The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile-long rail cargo expressway linking the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the transcontinental rail network near downtown Los Angeles.
		The Alameda Corridor consolidated four low-speed branch rail lines, eliminating conflicts at more than 200 at-grade crossings, providing a high-speed freight expressway, and minimizing the impact on communities.
		The $2.4 billion Alameda Corridor was funded through a unique blend of public and private sources.
	www.acta.org /newsroom_factsheet.htm (521 words)

	The Alameda Corridor East Construction Project
		The nearly complete Alameda Corridor project will expand the number and speed of trains moving freight from the ports to downtown Los Angeles.
		The Alameda Corridor East is an eight-year project comprised of 35 miles of railroad projects extending from Downtown Los Angeles to the San Bernardino County Line, paralleling the San Bernardino and Pomona Freeways.
		Should the Alameda Corridor East project be delayed or not be completed, trains making their way through downtown would become backlogged in the San Gabriel Valley, causing the lengthy wait times at intersections with railroad crossings.
	republican.sen.ca.gov /opeds/29/oped612_print.asp (565 words)

	Alameda Corridor shows us how to do it (printable version)
		The opening of the Alameda Corridor project — a 20-mile railroad “expressway” to the Long Beach-Los Angeles port complex — is important because, in many ways, Reno officials have used the 10-mile below-ground portion as a model for their much smaller project.
		That was a good choice: The final Alameda Corridor project came in on time and within budget.
		The Alameda Corridor is more important to Southern California than ReTRAC is to the Truckee Meadows, of course.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=12066 (318 words)

	Alameda Corridor Project / N. Orange Cty Greens.org
		Despite a long-standing promise to train and hire low-income people, officials of the $2.4-billion Alameda Corridor project revealed Thursday that they are falling far short of their goals to recruit workers from the cities along the route of the new rail link.
		The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile-long toll route for trains that is designed to improve the movement of cargo to and from the county's fast-growing ports.
		But Schafer and other Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority officials have said that it was Schafer who found her own mistake, notified her superiors and corrected the error.
	www.sjcite.info /acp.html (3336 words)

	BNSF Markets - Intermodal Alameda Surcharge
		The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile railroad express line that connects the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach to the transcontinental rail network.
		The Corridor was funded by a combination of bond debt, grants, and a federal loan.
		The Alameda Corridor use fees shall be increased based on changes in the CPI for the preceding 12-month period ending October 31 and implemented January 1 of each year, starting January 1, 2003.
	www.bnsf.com /markets/intermodal/alameda_surcharge.html (395 words)


		The Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition was launched two and half years ago in the Los Angeles area to secure jobs for residents affected by the construction of the Alameda Corridor Project.
		The $2.2 billion Alameda Corridor Project is designed to ship cargo from the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro to downtown Los Angeles in a matter of minutes, using a bullet train similar to those used in Japan.
		The Coalition went to the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, the independent agency that is overseeing the project, to ask for two things.
	www.workingforamerica.org /documents/journal2/alameda.htm (514 words)

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