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Federal money to upgrade port rail capacity

Submitted by Rick on Sat, 11/19/2005 - 7:09pm.

The port of Olympia gets some help in upgrading the facilities for rail transport. From The Olympian:

The Port of Olympia got a $2 million federal present that will help pay for its growing rail yard.

The 2006 Congressional appropriation was announced Friday by U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Vancouver, and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

The port will use the money to install tracks to load cargo and stage trains for coupling, said Jim Amador, the port's marine terminal director.

[snip]

As rails are added, the port will become more competitive in recruiting new lines of cargo, Amador said. In the past, he has mentioned transporting transformers for power projects and moving parts used in the construction of refineries as possible new cargo lines.

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Will the improvements to the

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 11/19/2005 - 7:34pm.

Will the improvements to the rail lines enable the shipment of nuclear waste through the port?

Is bigger always better? Is it necessary, or even good for the community to have the port economic district bent on expansion?

What are the pros and cons to a growth-based economy. Is an economy based on the need for growth sustainable? If not, what are alternatives?

Patty Murray and funding the Port's Rail System

Submitted by Tayacan on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 9:59am.

Pretty forward thinking by Rob, don't you think? This tiem it was Strykers but next time it could be the nuclear waste. As Rob asks, what are the pros and cons to a growth-based economy, especially when so much of that is tied to the military-industrial complex?

You never know, it could be

Submitted by Norm on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 10:12am.

You never know, it could be a good thing for this area.

hmmmm

Submitted by Crenshaw Sepulveda on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 10:22am.

If there are improvements to the rail capacity I'd like to see them in terms of moving people and not nuclear sewage and thing that cause mass distruction. Mass Transit, not Mass Destruction. I see all these provisions making it easier for industrial crap got get from point A to point B, but how about making sure that people can get around. Politicians always love slipping stuff into bills (not to mention slipping other things into, well, never mind) just once would i enjoy seeing some provision slipped in to move people along with this grant. You really can not go wrong if you put people first.

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."

Can we please elect two

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 10:35am.

Can we please elect two like-minded people to the Port Commission so the entire thing can be dissolved?

the port is a failure

Submitted by Crenshaw Sepulveda on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 10:49am.

The port and its commissioners are a failure. We have another rat hole that money goes into and doesn't end up producing anything of value for the community. So bad has the running of the port been that they are sucking hind teat by taking on these military shipments to make it looks like we have a viable port. Even if the protesters were not at the port I suspect that this recent shipment would have been a money losing proposition for the port. And don't get me started on this monument the commissioner are building for themselves in the form of a 10 million dollar campus. For the love of jebus.

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."

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