The Alameda Corridor is a dedicated rail freight expressway connecting the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the transcontinental rail network near downtown Los Angeles, built to move the growing volume of containers from the ports without the delays and street-level conflicts of the earlier rail lines it replaced. Its centerpiece is a lowered trench that carries freight trains beneath dozens of city streets, eliminating the grade crossings that had previously slowed both trains and road traffic across the corridor. It was built specifically to keep pace with rising container volumes at the adjacent ports as trans-Pacific trade expanded.
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Completion Year SignificanceFifteen percent of the nation's container traffic travels through the corridor. 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Alameda Corridor
Source Wikipedia: Alameda Corridor
Source Wikipedia: Alameda Corridor
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WikipediaIntroduction, function
connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the transcontinental mainlines of BNSF and the Union Pacific that terminate near downtown Los Angeles, California.
Opening
The line began operation on April 15, 2002
Cargo volume
Fifteen percent of the nation's container traffic travels through the corridor.
In Group: Freight Terminals and Corridors, Lead sentence
The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile (32 km) freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (reporting mark ATAX) that connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the transcontinental mainlines of BNSF and the Union Pacific that terminate near downtown Los Angeles, California.
Operated By: BNSF Railway, Infobox: operator
BNSF, Union Pacific, Pacific Harbor Line
Operated By: Union Pacific Railroad, Infobox: operator
BNSF, Union Pacific, Pacific Harbor Line
Operated By: Pacific Harbor Line, Infobox: operator
BNSF, Union Pacific, Pacific Harbor Line
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