ALAMEDA CORRIDOR IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

    After more than two decades of planning and five years of construction, the Alameda Corridor is open for business. Long trumpeted as the largest - and costliest - intermodal infrastructure project in US history, the Corridor is expected to ease the flow of rail and truck-bound cargo containers moving the 20-plus miles between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the two major rail yards near downtown Los Angeles that link the Southland... (more)

ROCKY REDUX: HOLLYWOOD VS. THE WORLD

    Hollywood is in the global battle for its life and the picture isn't very good. According to a report recently released by the Entertainment Industry Development Group, the production of just about everything that Tinseltown holds dear - feature films, commercials, music videos, and television shows - fell by more than 29% in February compared with the same month a year ago. Feature films, the big ticket backbone of California's entertainment industry, took the heaviest hit during the month - down by a staggering 65% to only 408 production days during the month, compared with... (more)

RIDGE TOUTS US-MEXICO "FAST LANE" FOR FREIGHT

    The movement of goods between the US and Mexico - a complicated and sometimes convoluted process in the best of times - could "dramatically" improve if a plan proposed by US Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge gets the nod from Washington and Mexico City. Ridge, speaking recently after two days of meetings in the Mexican capitol, said that a cross-border "fast lane" between the two countries would ease the delays in moving goods caused by... (more)