POLICY COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF MAYORS
IN GREATER VANCOUVER |

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BRIEF TO THE HEARING OF THE CANADIAN TRANSPORT COMMISSION/RAILWAY
TRANSPORT COMMITTEE TO BE HELD IN VANCOUVER, B.C., MARCH 3, 1986
REGARDING THE DECISION AND ORDER DATED DECEMBER 30, 1985.

Gentlemen:

This brief has been prepared by the Mayors of the fourteen (14) cities
2nd municipalities in Greater Vancouver which cooperate on matters of

common interest.

Response to the Revised Preferred Plan —

We have no fundamental disagreement with the Revised Preferred Plan
outlined in the Decision and Order provided due consideration is given

to the following:

1.° We want the Canadian Transport Commission Railway Transport
Committee (CTC/RTC) to specify the operating standards and
procedures that shall be required and improvements to the trackage’
that shall be made to permit trains carrying dangerous goods to
move over the Burlington Northern dock as outlined on pages 15 and
16 of the December 30, 1985, Decision and Order. Such changes
should not be left to the discretion of railway companies.

We want to be assured by the CTC/RTC that such movements can be
made safely even with the increase in dangerous goods transshipped
over that facility. We also want the changes in operations and
trackage to be such that there will be no storage of dangerous
goods on the Burlington Northern dock and that trains carrying
such goods from the CPR to BN dock will not cross and re-cross
city streets.

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Coquitlam, Corporation of Delta, City of New Wesiminster,
couver, City of Port Coquitiam, City of Port Moody, Township of Richmond

District of Surrey, City of Vancouver, District of West Vancouver, Clty of White Rock,