Summary
The BNSF proposed container railyard is going to bring gridlock to the Westside and the 710 Freeway downtown. They are proposing as many as 1.5 million trucks each year. The additional trucks, along with the 600,000 already going into ICTF (Intermodal Container Transfer Facility) will gridlock the freeways and city streets on the Westside.
The trucks already back up one to two miles every time a ship is unloaded and containers are trucked to ICTF. With a total of 2.1 million trucks and with more than one ship being unloaded at a time, which can easily happen with multiple terminals, trucks going to the two container railyards will have to use both the 710 and Terminal Island freeways, as well as city streets in the Westside industrial area, the economic engine for the city.See the full content of this document
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Not only will this create gridlock for hours each day, but trucks backed up on the freeways and city streets mean more diesel soot spread over downtown Long Beach, the downtown neighborhoods, and all of Long Beach. Recent studies hav...
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