[All] Glad the GO-Train is coming BUT ...

[Robert Milligan]

Hi All,

Thanks Lulu for your below email.

Greners hopefully will be interested in the actual severity of early  
morning noise and diesel exhaust pollution. Related quotes from http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630379--go-trains-coming-to-kitchener-dec-19 
:
1. "Neighbours were startled to learn that trains will ... idle there  
while warming up."
2. "Provincial commuter trains will leave Kitchener’s Via Rail station  
on Victoria St. N. at 5:52 a.m. and ... ." (which means idling  
noise/'toxic diesel exhaust' pollution starts when in the morning --  
4:00 a.m. or earlier?)

For affected Kitchener residents, the sooner that idling trains are  
located in a non-problematic(??) location near Baden -- by Alpine  
Plant Foods -- the better. However, if this location is not  
sufficiently appropriately-located,  then 4 sequently idling GO-Trains  
could lead to students arriving at WODSS -- and the new public school  
-- amidst smelly and toxic diesel fumes. And Baden subdivision  
residents could have diesel exhaust with their morning coffee.

Perhaps the next 2 engines that GO-Train purchases could be diesel/ 
battery hybrids with cleaner-burning diesel engines that could be  
warmed up -- if necessary -- at appropriate track stretches while  
moving along the route. (See http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featureelectric-diesel-or-hybrid-the-great-railcar-debate/)

(I live in Wilmot Township & was a long-serving member of their  
Environmental Advisory Committee with a special interest in air  
pollution such as the risk of the very dangerous anhydrous ammonia  
escaping from fertilizer manufacturer Alpine Plant Food which is  
upwind from WODSS and Baden -- as the new GO-Train "idling" yard might  
be.)

Regards,
Robert M

On 25-Nov-11, at 12:50 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:

> Go trains to and from Toronto start in Kitchener on December 19th.
>
> http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630379--go-trains-coming-to-kitchener-dec-19
>
> Lulu :0)
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