DOT Aims to Ease Congestion on Freight Networks

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img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>WASHINGTON — Deputy Transportation Secretary Michael Jackson said Feb. 12 that his department wants to ease congestion on critical freight transportation networks, particularly intermodal operations.

“Freight transportation is something we’re going to take a look at,” said the No. 2 official at Transportation. “Not necessarily, let’s say, the top 10 intermodal operations, but those where improvements are called for across the country,” he said in an interview with Transport Topics after testifying on DOT’s 2004 funding proposal at the House Budget Committee.

Jackson said the initiative to help move cargo from ports to highways probably would be part of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. The multiyear highway bill expires Sept. 30 and its renewal is supposed to be one of the year’s major transportation issues.

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