GET THE TRAINS OUT OF DOWNTOWN LANGLEY

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    Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff, BC Premier Gordon Campbell, Mayor Rick Green and Council of Langley Township, BC, Mayor Peter Fassbender and Council of Langley City, BC and principals of railways involved
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Heavy freight trains regularly pass through downtown Langley City and the rural Township, blocking the streets and causing intolerable traffic chaos with idling vehicles polluting the air.

The railway companies intend to increase the length of these trains to 3.7 kilometers and to further increase the frequency of the trains.

The railway companies plan to install double tracking.

The increased number of trains will block the main streets and core of Langley, each train blocking a number of rail crossings for periods of 10 to 15 minutes.

This will put into further jeopardy the lives of citizens requiring fire and ambulance vehicles.

This will negatively affect local merchants, restaurants, tourism, air quality, home values and quality of life in Langley.

This will make Langley an unsafe and undesirable place in which to visit, live, commute and work.

Therefore:

Be it resolved that all parties involved make the extraordinary effort required to reroute all heavy freight trains out of downtown Langley and back into the historic rail corridor located south of the Fraser River.

This move will take a combined effort of heroic proportions by all parties involved. But the time is ripe for change and spending measures to boost Canada's economic outlook through the construction and relocation of rail traffic and the smooth flow of Canadian goods to BC ports for export abroad.

BE A HERO. GET THE TRAINS OUT OF DOWNTOWN LANGLEY

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  • Wally Martin
  • karen kersey
    • Comments
    • It's about time
  • Sharon Martin
    • Comments
    • CLEAR THE TRACK Stop train traffic through the Langleys! Canadian PM Sir John A. Macdonald is a hero for building a 3,000 mile link that made us the great country we are...be a HERO YOURSELF and MOVE THE TRACKS BACK WHERE THEY BELONG
  • Sam Omelaniec
  • Pamela G Omelaniec
  • Sonya Paterson
    • Comments
    • The citizens were not consulted about the funding for overpasses which wouold result in more trains coming through Langley, is that DEMOCRACY?
  • Bryan Vogler
    • Comments
    • Thisn is not a CPR track. Get the freight trains out of Langley
  • christopher Howerton
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    • the trains need to be moved to the river, not through Langley City! The current track should be used for interurban transport.
  • Debbie Dolton
  • darlene johnston
    • Comments
    • We are tired of being held hostage by the ever increasing freight train traffic.. Enough is enough now.
  • Tamara O.
  • Kate Howerton
  • Roger MacLaren
    • Comments
    • Without the trains Langley could become a tourist destination and be a nice place to live
  • Robert Groulx
  • Barbara Braaten
  • Mike Martin
    • Comments
    • Agreed
  • Renee Martin
  • Thomas Braaten
    • Comments
    • Let the taxpayers decide, not the TOL engineering department and the Provincial politicians.
  • Annette Arnott
  • Steven Bieberstein
  • Lorraine Logan
    • Comments
    • Do the right thing
  • Bill Taylor
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    • Light Passenger not Heavy Freight
  • Barbara Taylor
  • Beverley Krieger
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    • I appreciate that trains are an integral part of our economy. The overpass is fine, but with the inccreasing population of Langley and the lack of a decent transit system to Langley we are forced to drive when we want to go east. I understand that there is a possibility of rerouting trains to a less densely populated area. Has this eaver been considered as an option?
  • Cassandra Caunce
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    • There are so many reasons why longer and more frequent trains should not be permitted to cut through Langley. Why does the city have to put up overpasses? Why doesn't the rail company do so or even re-route the track around the city? This is ridiculous!
  • Nell lHaygarth
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    • Trains rumbling through downtown is totally primitive! Wake up and get them outa here ASAP!!
  • Roy Mufford
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    • Please note- If the NEW WESTMINSTER RAIL BRIDGE was replaced ,all East bound DELTAPORT trains could be diverted to the North side of the FRASER RIVER and would not have to come anywhere near Langley
  • Oliver Boonstra
    • Comments
    • No means no, don't secretly do it anyway as you have in the past
  • Michelle Dyble
  • Cynthia Rogers
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  • Deborah Cooper
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    • Let's keep Langley a country atmosphere! No trains, please and thanks!
  • a. ross
  • Earl T. Mufford
    • Comments
    • It is time that the politicians and bureaucrats in Langley started working for the people of Langley .
  • Cindy Hof
  • James
    • Comments
    • Move the frieght trains, bring back the passenger trains!
  • Frances McGuckin
    • Comments
    • I've lived here 25 years and must have wasted a few of those waiting for trains. Time to be progressive and let Langley grow without the added frustration of two-mile trains.
  • Darrell Krell
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    • Time for our elected officals to be more creative/proactive.. move heavy out, passenger light in.
  • Ricardo deMontezuma
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    • A city centre should be a people place. A more inappropriate routing for two mile long unit trains is difficult to imagine.
  • Gina Lawson
  • Barb Konrad
  • Ben Dyck
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  • Vanessa Dyck
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  • Cathy Johnson
  • Chris Wright
  • Christopher Green
  • Dan Sheel
  • Tisan Claudiu
  • Tony Platts
  • Darren Stollings
  • Nicholas Mufford