Freight In The Pipeline
16 March 2002 - 9:00am
Researchers in Texas experiment with an underground freight tunnel to ease congestion.
"The project: a subterranean freight pipeline...crawling the 150 miles between Dallas and the border town of Laredo, Texas...the tunnels would accommodate trains of refrigerator-sized cars that would whisk along electrified track at 60 miles per hour. A full day's haul would carry the equivalent of 2,000 truckloads, or 15 tons. That could bring considerable relief to Interstate 35..."
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Wired, March 14, 2002
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