I was wondering about what people think about the private road being built for exchange of oversized containers in the Chicago area?
You’ll need to provide more info and/or links to details before I could give an opinion.
I live in the Chicago area and know nothing about it. Also don’t care since it isn’t my money but my opinion is with the congestion we have now 24/7/365 better to keep anything oversize off the roads. my only question is how oversize and how are they getting here? they couldn’t be shipped on any transportation system rail or road without massive tieups depending on dimensions.
Check out today’s Trains Newswire . Last item.
The road’s not going to be very long, and will be built over private property, linking an intermodal terminal directly to a warehouse.
I remember John Kneiling writing regarding his slide-on, slide-off container train system that companies could locate near terminals (with private roads) and use 80 ft containers,flats, and rigs for more economy. Wouldn’t have to conform to public highways.
35 years later, doing it is newsworthy.
The trucking lobby will just pay their congressional bubbas under the table to look the other way so they can do the same thing on public roads. On the other hand, possibly a few will see the rationale between extreme highway axle loads and the extra pavement required and ask questions about what’s out there now and the taxpayer subsidy for truckers that exists now.
I’m familiar with the area in question and the CSX intermodal terminal and the Nexus warehouse are adjacent along the south edge of Clearing Yard. At most, the road haul is only a few blocks long. It will allow the sorting of oversize container loads to take place in a facility that can accomodate it.
I saw this on the chicago tribune website yesterday. Sorry for not giving more information where it could be found.