Atlantic Gateway

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Since federal and provincial spending on twinned
highways in the Atlantic region now stands in contradiction to the goals
of the Kyoto Accord (to reduce highway traffic and improve the
environment) and since railways in Atlantic Canada and New England have
recently been diverting traffic to our highways (because it is cheaper
for them to do this than to send the shipments by rail), the undersigned
urge both levels of government to ensure improved railway infrastructure
is made a key priority in the proposal to create an Atlantic Gateway
transportation corridor to Central and Western Canada.

110 Signatures

  • Jay Underwood
  • Steve Boyko
    • Comments
    • I believe we need to increase the availability of public transit and use more efficient freight transport, not build bigger roads.
  • Ric Hamilton
  • Andrew Reid
    • Comments
    • The one thing this province needs less than more trucks on the highways...is more highways...
  • David Othen
  • D Ward
  • Vaughn Munden
    • Comments
    • Railroads should be a priority in this country for so many reasons.
  • Brian Hiscock
    • Comments
    • With trains burning 5 times less fuel than trucks to move the same amount of freight and with the trucking industry suffering a labour shortage, it only makes sense to improve rail infrastructure.
  • Patricia Othen
  • Al Green
  • Roman Litarchuk
  • David A.Slater
    • Comments
    • ALL!!! the Provinces need better rail service to cut down on polution and save our highways. More and biggerr trucks means more damage to roads and higher repair bills for same.
  • Ronald Giles
  • Michael Cormier
  • Dara Legere
  • Alex Roberts
  • E. F. Slater
    • Comments
    • Bad idea, it's been done on the Prairies and is wrecking our highways.
  • Nathan Brown
  • Douglas Conrad
  • Jeremy Andrew MacPherson
  • Terry Wynne
    • Comments
    • Please, please do not go the way of the UK who allowed railborne freight to become road hauled freight clogging roads, increasing the demand for more fuel consumption, increased pollution and greenhouse gases. Rail transportation is the most eco-friendly mode in the world - use it.
  • Glen Smith
  • Andrew Chisholm
  • Robert Grace
    • Comments
    • Need to improve conditions for rail transportation in all of Canada, to be able to meet Kyoto and improve efficiency in general.
  • Mike Clare
  • Jordan Herman
  • Mike Whitty
  • Ronald Pelletier
    • Comments
    • Highways can only handle so much traffic and they are already over loaded.
  • Eric Gagnon
  • Dana Brewer
  • Geoffrey T. Doane
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  • Wayne McCoy
    • Comments
    • Concur
  • John A. Rushton
    • Comments
    • Rail freight is far more environment friendly than increased truck traffic on the highways.
  • Steven Dickie
    • Comments
    • Railways make economic and environmental sense from both an operational and maintenance perspective when compared with highways. Funding highway expansion using an extremely limited infrastructure budget is very short-sighted public policy by any government.
  • Wade Hawkins
  • Shawn Walsh
  • G Burridge
    • Comments
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  • paul trudel
  • David Mitchell
    • Comments
    • Rail infrastucture has to be a large part of the Atlantic Gateway whether from the Port Of Halifax or Strait of Canso.
  • J. Stuart Grossert
    • Comments
    • I strongly support the use of rail transport as a more efficient use of resources than trucking for moving freight long distances
  • Douglas Allen
  • Andrew Underwood
    • Comments
    • Aside from the obvious of reducing traffic and pollution, it would contribute to fewer expenses relating to the upkeep of the highway system
  • EUGENE D BURLES
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  • Jeffrey Skaling
  • Elvi Kargoll
  • Adam Parsons
  • Clifford Kennedy Jr.
  • Chris Metallic
  • Jason Chamberlain