CRUCIAL FREIGHT LINK IN RENO INCHES TOWARD COMPLETION

This article describes progress on the Reno Transportation Rail Access Corridor (ReTRAC) project designed to accommodate the growing amount of freight traffic originating at the Port of Oakland. An increase in the volume of Asian cargo arriving at the port is expected to boost annual train traffic through Reno by 30 percent. The project involves the construction of a 33-ft-deep, 54-ft-wide rail corridor in the form of a trench running 2.21 miles through downtown Reno. Road traffic will pass overhead on 11 precast concrete, post-tensioned bridges. The article relates that the project has been challenged by a number of issues, such as utility mitigation, a citizens’ lawsuit, and archeological discoveries on the site. The most troublesome one, however, arose from fluctuating groundwater levels during excavation. Peak consumer usage was shown to be the source of the problem. The situation was resolved with the pumping out of 55 million gallons of groundwater.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Page range: pp 18, 20
• Corporate Authors:

  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

  330 West 42nd Street
  New York, NY  United States  10036
• Authors:
  • Illia, T
• Publication Date: 2005-7-25

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: 2p
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 255
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight traffic; Freight trains; Transportation corridors
• Geographic Terms: Reno (Nevada)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01005427
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 19 2005 12:43PM