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The GRID project is an environmentally-superior project to
modernize port operations and goods movement at the San Pedro port
complex and region-wide.   It meets every published criteria for
the inclusion and highest priority in the investment plan for
auction proceeds from the cap-and-trade program to reduce
greenhouse gases (GHGs).  

It provides an ideal alternative to planned port and freeway
expansion projects that are opposed by local communities, subject
to CEQA challenges and legally contested. 

•	The GRID project is a zero-emissions project from shipside crane
to inland empire distribution facilities. 
•	The GRID project provides on-dock, zero-emission rail transport
for goods movement. 
•	The GRID project prevents the need for the expansion of port
operations to off-dock and near-dock facilities.
•	The GRID project provides investment opportunities in and for the
identified disadvantaged communities in the port and I-710 adjacent
areas.
•	The GRID project creates jobs and job training programs in and
for these disadvantaged communities.
•	The GRID project creates a new infrastructure in support of the
electrification of Class 1 railroads.
•	The GRID project creates a hub-and-spoke system around existing
inland intermodal distribution facilities in support of freight
truck electrification.