Re: “CP’s ties that bind,” April 3.
This is one of the world’s finest cities. However, in our midst on the Arbutus Corridor is the long abandoned and derelict CP spur lin, an awful blemish on our landscape.
This railway company has a reclaim activation project on stream to drive a metal spike into the heart of our residential communities. They claim to establish an industrial storage zone to store empty or full cargo box onto 10 kilometres of our beautiful city.
Box cars are dangerous, unsightly and violate our community environments. All levels of governments should be addressing the matter; after all, they all contributed to the century-old grants. Maybe it’s timely to rescind the grants.
This is about people and where they live. It’s about a frontier city, maybe we have to take the lead. There is a vision to have the Corridor as part of the Trans Canada
Trail for its finish in 2017. We should make it the most beautiful section of that classic project.
Hans Finken, Vancouver
