Waterloo requesting railway info
Posted Sep 10, 2013 07:38:22 AM.
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Waterloo City Council has passed a motion that all railway companies travelling through Waterloo provide railway traffic information to the city’s fire chief.
Kitchener recently passed a similar motion.
The rule change is a response to recent train derailments in Alberta and Quebec, as well as Waterloo.
A train derailed in the uptown core in the fall of last year.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities formed a national municipal rail safety working group to address the concerns of railway safety with the federal government and Canada’s railway industry following the recent tragedies.
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