In new rail facility, McKees Rocks and CSX both see chance for more business

The borough will also contend with the prospect of thousands of trucks a year coming into the site and in an area already clogged with vehicles and with, in some places, deteriorating roads. The borough is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University’s Traffic21 research institute to study traffic flow across a 10-county region.“Trucks have been an issue for a while here already,” said Jeb Feldman, manager of economic development for the MRCDC. “To hear we’re going to have thousands of more trucks coming here because of this facility, it was an obvious concern.” Sean Qian, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at CMU, who will perform the analysis with a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation…
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