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Victorville council approves letter backing BNSF's Barstow International Gateway after presentation
Summary
Following a presentation by BNSF, the Victorville City Council voted unanimously to send a letter of support for the Barstow International Gateway draft EIR, a proposed ~5,000-acre intermodal project that BNSF said would shift freight from road to rail and includes a public comment period ending Jan. 5.
Lena Kent, director of public affairs for BNSF Railway, presented the Barstow International Gateway draft environmental impact report to the Victorville City Council on Dec. 16 and asked the council to weigh in with a letter of support. Kent described the proposal as a roughly $4,000,000,000 intermodal and transload complex sited on about 5,000 acres near Barstow and said it is intended to move more freight by rail rather than highway.
"We will then transload the goods ... into that 53-foot container and then transport it across…
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