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,