DRAFT Open Letter on Transportation 2021.03.11
Pacific Northwest North American Initiative:
RAIL Solution submits grant application to the Oregon Department of Transportation
for truckers to drive onto a train for a faster, cheaper, safer ride,
the same operated by the Germans, Swiss and Italians for truckers to cross the Alps!
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association support letter that more be learned about trains for truckersto drive their rigs onto to increase their productivity -- we need more letters like this. Are you a trucker, or a company that operates a private truck fleet, trucks of any size, type, and commodity, or are you responsible for purchasing freight services and you do not have a rail-based option that is reliable, timely, and the right price? Then we need, please, a letter from you, too!
Please lend us a hand getting this grant awarded.
Volunteers/Donors Contact
Robinson Foster, Western Affairs, fosterr_comcast.net
Dave Foster, Eastern Affairs, RAILSolution_aol.com
Note:
Dave and Robinson are not related.
The Steel Interstate Coalition is a project of RAIL Solution, a nonproft 501(c)(3
Portland Metro Opportunites Clackamas + Multnomah + Washington Counties, Oregon
Cut Portland, Oregon Metro Highway Congestion Without Tolls
Rebuild the Willamette Falls Locks Economic benefits of running freight on the river, and recreation, too! Bringing Roll-On/Roll-Off to North America:
Rolling Highway, daily in Europe.
Flexiwaggon, viable for North America?
Better investing $22 million in Connect Oregon funds, let's do roll-on/roll-off here.
The Land Ferry video, good points but let's use conventional tech:
Tennessee/Virginia/Pennsylvania
In the East, decongest Interstate 81:
- The I-81 Corridor Improvement Study must include an analysis of the life-cycle economic and environmental costs and benefits to add new capacity for a railway based truck ferry operation on the parallel Norfolk Southern Railway rail line, versus adding more lanes for trucks on I-81 itself:
- Statement to the Virginia Department of Transportation on a Need for a Rail Alternative in the I-81 Corridor, by David Foster, Chairman, RAIL Solution 05/24/19.
- Statement to the I-81 Corridor Improvement Study Public Hearings, by David Foster, Chairman, RAIL Solution 10/25/18.
- Divert trucks on I-81 to rail, The Roanoke Times, editorial by David Foster, Chairman, RAIL Solution 08/02/18.
- Make I-81 Multimodal through Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, by public hearing comments by David Foster, Chairman, RAIL Solution 05/10/18
Volunteers/Donors Contact
- Robinson Foster, Western Affairs, fosterr_comcast.net
- Dave Foster, Eastern Affairs, RAILSolution_aol.com
Note: Dave and Robinson are not related; the Steel Interstate Coalition is a project of RAIL Solution, a nonproft 501(c)(3).