Article: Border Rail Loop Would Clear El Paso and Juarez, Texas, Bottlenecks.

By Diane Velasco, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 12--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--A "hugely ambitious" $240"million proposal has been unveiled to ease railroad gridlock in El Paso, Texas, and neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, by creating a 120-mile high-speed loop that would run through Santa Teresa in southern New Mexico.

"We are very pleased about stepping out with a very solid plan that benefits this entire region of which Santa Teresa and southern New Mexico are a vital component," said El Paso Mayor Raymond Caballero, who recently outlined the proposal called the regional intermodal rail project.

"If this ...

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