Every day on the Long Island Expressway, you see rumbling 18-wheel evidence for the need to get trucks off our roads. The trucks bang up pavement, spew fumes and contribute to traffic congestion. But we’ve been slow to use rail instead. So the opening of a new rail freight terminal in Yaphank is a small but hopeful step on the way to road sanity.

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/shipping-by-rail-not-the-lie-1.3219859

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