Monday, December 12, 2005 Issue 11   VOLUME 1 ISSUE 11  
CONTENTS
New SoCal Leadership Group To Tackle Transportation Issues
Massive Tunnel boring machines To Be Lowered Into Ground For Eastside Light Rail Project
Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern Added to BNSF's Interline Pricing at BNSF.com
Buena Park And OCTA Begin Work On 11th Metrolink Station In Orange County
Take The Bus And Leave The Driving For Us
Southern California in Dire Straits Without Adequate Infrastructure Improvements, says Southern California Leadership Council
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New SoCal Leadership Group To Tackle Transportation Issues
A group of key business and community leaders and the four former California Governors create unique single public policy voice for regional solutions.
www.laedc.org
by George McQuade

(From L to R:) LAEDC Senior Vice President Wally Baker, Economic and Public Policy Consulting ; LAEDC President & CEO Lee Harrington; former CA Governors Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis; and LAEDC Chairman Rod Banks. “The objective is to support the development and implementation of a near-term plan to rally business and public sector leaders around the ideas of reducing diesel pollution, modernizing our goods movement and trade infrastructure, and increasing the management, security, safety and velocity of our freight corridor system."
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Massive Tunnel boring machines To Be Lowered Into Ground For Eastside Light Rail Project
Los Angeles Mayor and Other Officials To Signal Construction Startup
www.metro.net
Gold Line train platform at Union Station

Construction crews will lower segments of two tunnel boring machines into a future Metro Rail station box at Mariachi Plaza. Each of the tunnel boring machines weigh two million pounds and will measure 344 feet with the trailing gear.It's part of the Metro Gold Line extension project.

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Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern Added to BNSF's Interline Pricing at BNSF.com
www.bnsf.com
 BNSF Engine (Courtesy Burlington Norther Sante Fe)

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today announced that carload customers now can also obtain instantaneous interline prices at bnsf.com for shipments originating on BNSF and terminating on the Canadian...


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Buena Park And OCTA Begin Work On 11th Metrolink Station In Orange County
www.octa.net
(image)courtesy Metrolink of Orange County

Soon, it will be even easier for residents of Buena Park to travel through the heart of Orange County on Metrolink’s Orange County Line between downtown Los Angeles and Oceanside. Local attractions such as Knott’s Berry Farm will also be more accessible to Southern Californians when the Buena Park station opens in early 2007.

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Take The Bus And Leave The Driving For Us
METRO offers many holiday solutions to traffic weary holiday shoppers.
www.metro.net
There are live Broadway Acts Thru December 25th at the Grove (above) photo by George McQuade

Metro has produced a “Go Metro 2005 Shopping Guide” which lists shopping venues accessible by Metro. A map shows where to find nearly 30 different shopping areas along the Metro Red, Orange, Blue, Green and Gold Lines.

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Southern California in Dire Straits Without Adequate Infrastructure Improvements, says Southern California Leadership Council
Led by four former California Governors, SCLC launches campaign to inform public about SoCal’s transportation infrastructure needs
http://www.laedc.org/sclc/index.html
by George McQuade

LOS ANGELES – The already congested Southern California highway system will only get worse unless adequate infrastructure improvements are made now, says the Southern California Leadership Council...


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