THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

BYLAW NO. 2045 C ¢ UJ N |
A Bylaw to Prohibit the Sounding

of Train Whistles at Westwood Street. JUN j { 1984

JUN 25 1984
WHEREAS the Railway Act being Chapter R-2 cf the Revised Statutes of Canada,
1970, as amended, Section 248, provides as toliows:

"248 (1) When any train is approaching a highway crossing et rail Jevel the engine

whistle shail be sounded at lest eighty rods before reaching such
crossing and the bel! shall be rung continuously from the time of the
sounding of the whistie until.the engine has crossed such highway.
Where a bylaw of an urban municipallty prohibits such sounding of the
whistle or ringing of the bell in respect of any such crossing or
crossings within the limits of the municipality, the bylaw shall, if
approved by an order of the Commission, to the extent of the prohibition
retieve the company and its employees from the duty imposed by this
section.

In subsection (2) the expression "urban municipality" means

(a) a City;

(b) a Town; or .

(c) any other municipality that contains a thickly populated area and
that the Commission, on the application of such municipality,
declares to be an urban municipality within the meaning of that
subsection."

AND WHEREAS the whistiing of the locomotives on the Canadian Pacific Railway
track, whilst traversing the City of Port Coquitiam, disturbs the peace and quiet
of the residents of the City of Port Coquitlam, both by day and at night, in the
neighbourhood of the at-grade highway rallway crossing on Westwood Street, in the
City of Port Coquitlam; ’

AND WHEREAS the necessary protection devices as required by the Canadian
Transport Commission have been erected on both sides of the level highway railway
‘crossing on Westwood Street;

NOW THEREFORE the Municipal! Counci! of the The Corporation of the City of Port
Coquittam, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:

The sounding of any train engine whistle in accordance with the provisions of
Section 248(1) of the Railway Act of Canada, 1970, as amended, in respect of the
at-grade highway raliway crossing on Westwood Street at Canadian Pacific Ral lway
Crossing mileage 112.8 Cascade Subdivision, within the limits of the City of Port

Coquitlam, is hereby prohibited.

This Bylaw may be cited for all purposes as the "Sounding of Train Whistles
Prohibition (Wastwood Street)Bylaw, 1984, No, 2045",

This Bylaw shall come into force on the day upon which It is approved by the
Railway Transport Committee of the Canadian Transport Commission.

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