By John Henry, Riverhead News-Review; June 28, 2019
You don’t have to be a transportation expert to grasp that something is seriously out of whack with how freight travels on Long Island and the rest of downstate New York.
According to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, rail’s share of long-haul freight shipments is 24% in the west-of-Hudson part of the metropolitan region and a mere 3% east of the Hudson; trucks move almost all of the rest.