<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<div>R<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robert Milligan <<a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 12, 2010 2:50:47 AM GMT-04:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Chair Ken Seiling <<a href="mailto:sken@region.waterloo.on.ca">sken@region.waterloo.on.ca</a>>, Mayor Doug Craig <<a href="mailto:craigd@cambridge.ca">craigd@cambridge.ca</a>>, CAO Mike Murray <<a href="mailto:mmike@region.waterloo.on.ca">mmike@region.waterloo.on.ca</a>>, CAO Jim King <<a href="mailto:kingj@cambridge.ca">kingj@cambridge.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Graham Vincent <<a href="mailto:vgraham@region.waterloo.on.ca">vgraham@region.waterloo.on.ca</a>>, Nancy Button <<a href="mailto:bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca">bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca</a>>, Darshpreet Bhatti <<a href="mailto:bdarshpr@region.waterloo.on.ca">bdarshpr@region.waterloo.on.ca</a>>, Becky Schlenvogt <<a href="mailto:sbecky@region.waterloo.on.ca">sbecky@region.waterloo.on.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>First Stage LRT to Cambridge Based on "Higher Collaboration" with CP<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Ken, Doug, Mike & Jim,</div><div><br></div><div>As you probably realize, I have been involved in the LRT project more than any other very knowledgeable citizen by at least a factor of 10. Uniquely, I have tried to bring to the project very much "outside-the-box" thinking to find and create new IDEAS to help the LRT become much more cost-effective -- <b>including how the railways might be better involved</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>But as the Region well knows, communicating and collaborating with the railways has never been easy -- especially with CP. (Please check out CP President Fred Green's speech -- APPENDIX 5 in included article -- in which he appears to be charting a new course of "Higher Collaboration" with other railways and stakeholders such as federal, provincial and local governments.)</div><div><br></div><div>But if the person trying to make contact with the railways is very non-standard -- not an official representing any organization, but the best interests of citizens and the environment </div><div>-- then the challenge is even greater. However, my motto in everything is "If at first you don't succeed, then ... " -- so I have persisted. </div><div><br></div><div>I had been aware for a few years that CP/Toyota trains had difficulty climbing the grade from approx. the entrance to Cambridge's Riverside Park up to Fountain St. near the Toyota plant. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, being very involved professionally with technological/environmental hazards and attendant risk, I also couldn't overlook the obvious precarious position of CP's track along the river bank -- <b>in the flood plain</b> -- between their Speed R. bridge and their Eagle St. crossing. </div><div><br></div><div>Increasingly very intense storms are being generated by our climate-change induced weather. Their raging flood waters -- because of the curve in the river -- would pound against the river bank that supports the CP track. One of these storms will be powerful enough to wash out that river bank, track and all!</div><div><br></div><div>But, neither one of these issues represented a sufficiently grave problem requiring CP's immediate attention. However, this all changed recently.</div><div><br></div><div>My breakthrough came when my research found a CP employee who was very sincerely concerned with averting a great tragedy if the sub-standard rail bridge across the Speed R. collapsed because the abnormally steep down-grade prevented a normally adequate train braking system to slow the train sufficiently.</div><div><br></div><div>Just imagine this scenario in which a 4-engine CP train pulling 30+ fully-loaded triple-decker Toyota rail cars is coming down one of the steepest grades in the CP rail network towards the Speed R. bridge. Under normal grade conditions, the CP train's braking system would be sufficient to slow it down to an acceptably slow speed to meet the safety requirements of such a bridge. </div><div><br></div><div>But this bridge poses a unique risk situation. Firstly, it is curvilinear which means that a turning (or centrifugal) force will be exerted on a moving train. Secondly, the bridge is supported on round posts in the river which will -- mostly invisibly -- deteriorate and weaken by water-enhanced rotting below the water surface and the wet river bed.</div><div> </div><div>The combination of the bridge's curvilinearness, and the very heavy weight and momentum of the 4 engines of the too-fast-for-the-conditions moving train, would generate a particularly powerful sideways-moving force towards the adjacent road bridge.</div><div><br></div><div>Eventually (when?) a literal tipping point will be reached for the rail bridge supports. Then the next CP/Toyota train coming down the grade will cause the bridge to collapse sideways into the river and onto the adjacent road bridge!! </div><div><br></div><div>And the Toyota rail cars with their downhill momentum -- and likely loss of steam/air brake pressure -- would continue to piles up at least on both bridges!!</div><div><br></div><div>This could result in the death not only of the engineer, but also of drivers and pedestrians on the bridge!!</div><div><br></div><div>And the economic consequences would also be very staggering for both CP and Toyota. </div><div><br></div><div>CP's reputation as a safe and reliable railway would suffer greatly -- especially since they knew of the problem and didn't take timely action. And while an expensive temporary bridge is being built, CP/Toyota would have to rely on the grossly slow and inadequate track that connects Toyota to the CN mainline. </div><div><br></div><div>Production at the Toyota plant would be slowed -- even to a standstill -- possibly for weeks at least. Likely Toyota would sue CP for their production and other losses generating more bad publicity for CP -- depressing further its reputation and share price. </div><div><br></div><div><div>This fuller recognition in my mind of the tragic risk potential presented here for the Cambridge community, other travelers, CP and Toyota also created a need-- and opportunity -- to communicate with CP at a higher level if lower rank officials followed tradition and didn't communicate back.</div><div><br></div><div>****************************************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>The body of a recent letter to CP will help update the situation:</div></div><div><br></div><div>"Thank you for the time and consideration that you and other CP officials are now giving to my concerns about the need to solve CP/Toyota's potential &/or actual problems in Cambridge's Eagle St. to Fountain St. section of track pertaining to: 1) Speed R. bridge safety, 2) grade climbing, and 3) river-bank track wipeout. </div><div><br></div><div>This below email is a copy recently sent to Region of Waterloo Chair Ken Seiling and CAO Mike Murray P.Eng. about my latest IDEAS for advancing their LRT project (Rapid Transit Initiative) towards successful implementation. </div><div><br></div><div>I have added to it, as APPENDIX 5, a copy of your President's (Fred Green) talk in Dec. 2006 in Montreal to the Canadian Railway Club. Hopefully his views here -- especially those about "Higher Collaboration" between all stakeholders including municipal governments -- have by now diffused throughout the organization through at least his "Execution Excellence" approach.</div><div><br></div><div>I will be giving particular emphasis to overcoming the ill-founded resistance to CP crossing Riverside Park. As I am also an environmentalist who loves parks -- but sees environmental problems in a local to Global context (and takes economic realities into consideration) -- I am in a better position than most to be of assistance.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, the fact that I have catalyzed the recognition and solution of numerous environmental</div><div>health problems in Cambridge and the wider Region of Waterloo in cooperation with their respective Councils over more than 20 years, also adds to my potential effectIveness. (I have donated well over 3000 hours to this LRT project.)</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this is useful in providing some potential context towards an optimal solution to CP's</div><div>Cambridge problem to more securely serve Toyota."</div><div><br></div><div>***************************************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div><b> I certainly can understand why some Cambridge officials might be reluctant to cooperate with CP. They love Riverside Park and are a little pissed-off at CP for the whole Hespler Rd. crossing situation. </b></div><div><br></div><div>In the latter, citizens have had to suffer such long waits while CP shunted trains across Hespler Road as part of their necessary switching yard practice. Just like the extreme case of big corporation BP showing -- now and historically -- great insensitivity to surrounding communities, CP seemed to behave similarly here. A court case initiated by the Region was required to resolve it.</div><div><br></div><div>But now the shoe is on the other foot. CP is asking for help from Cambridge (and the Region) to help prevent a potential tragedy as described above. Cambridge could seek "revenge" and make CP suffer the consequences. But many people could die if a viable solution is not found and accepted! Is not the high road a better direction for the citizens of Cambridge?</div><div><br></div><div>And employees at Toyota would likely suffer financially from mandatory leave-of-absences during a possible production slow/shut down while a temporary rail bridge is being built. </div><div><br></div><div>Or, anticipating such a potentially massive impairment of their production because of a very problematic and risky CP rail connection, Toyota might start to scale down its Cambridge plant and scale up its Woodstock plant!</div><div><br></div><div>CP says that all the problems with its track between Eagle and Fountain streets can be best solved with a crossing of Riverside Park. But especially citizens of Cambridge -- and people such as myself from the larger Region -- who cherish public parks, need to ask, can it be done in a way so that in-the-net it also enhances the park? </div><div><br></div><div>Some suggestions for starters towards this end might include a very unique rock garden of perennial flowers on both sides of the 45 degree sloped rail earth-berm that would cross the park. Its unique beauty could attract people from far and wide perhaps as a mini-Bucthart Gardens in Victoria, <a href="http://www.butchartgardens.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1">http://www.butchartgardens.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Also a miniature rideable children's train -- like one in a Peterborough park -- that could travel on rails mostly around the back part of Riverside Park but maybe also through a tunnel under the berm and through the evergreen "forest". </div><div><br></div><div>CP and Toyota could <b>also</b> contribute by enhancing the children's playground and zoo.</div><div><br></div><div>If the LRT also used the Park crossing via a second track, then no rail vehicle would cross and temporarily block the main park entrance. A pedestrian bridge attached to the rail bridges crossing Eagle St. and the river would give more convenient park access to the local community and others who arrived by the LRT.</div><div><br></div><div>Another major reason that a CP Riverside Park crossing is needed would be to <b>help facilitate the LRT coming to Cambridge in the first stage</b> of the Region's Rapid Transit Initiative project -- instead of 2036 or never. (A better LRT system design will help with developing Cambridge traffic jams as will a highway 24 eastern by-pass road.)</div><div><br></div><div>This Cambridge LRT outcome could be partly as a by-product of <b>a public-private partnership between the Region and CP</b> to build either a 1-track Park crossing (LRT has exclusive use during rush-hour periods) or a 2-track crossing (LRT has exclusive use of 1-track and the other during rush-hour periods). </div><div><br></div><div>Because of this very major project's high cost, support funding from the Federal and Provincial Governments could be separate from the LRT project funding. Although, funds that would have been spent by the LRT project to build a 3-track bridge across the Speed R. could be allocated to the project.</div><div><br></div><div>The arrangement with CP could include also their agreement on time-locked track sharing in which the LRT has exclusive use -- except between the hours of 12AM & 5AM -- of the section of track between the Kitchener CP/CN exchange yard near Courtland Ave. and approx. 200m. on the Cambridge side of the Grand R. bridge. Various specific new IDEAS could make this acceptable to CP.</div><div><br></div><div>A time-locked track (bridges and underpasses) sharing with both CP and GEXR/CN -- and the staging of the introduction of the very expensive interconnected street Intensification Corridors -- would dramatically decrease the LRT's initial -- an overall -- construction costs. This would make a Cambridge (Ridership Corridor) LRT along the existing rail right-of-way economically feasible.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>****************************************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier email to Regional Chair Ken Seiling & CAO Mike Murray:</div><div><br></div><div>Let me make it perfectly clear that some problems alluded to are not necessarily official positions of organizations involved but every LRT-related IDEA that I represent is a well-founded suggestion. However, I am communicating about serious Regional problems -- important to the future of both our citizens and businesses -- that have to be solved at least with an enhanced LRT system design made possible at least by much greater Region of Waterloo, City of Cambridge, CP & GEXR synergistic collaboration. </div><div><br></div><div>A viable LRT includes an affordable and effective Cambridge LRT NOW and not in <b>2036!!! -- </b>the actual not-officially-communicated target a Regional politician informed me of recently. We need Cambridge's LRT inclusion to at least boost K-W ridership (hence intensification effect), improve Regional unity and generally advance the Region.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, the LRT system design should give more emphasis to ridership. Then at least the Cambridge section LRT will have many more riders than current estimates that show insufficiency -- a passive projection based mostly on the current student & working poor riders. This would be because more middle class car drivers will be attracted to a much faster LRT -- an active projection based on intervention by better design.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the previous email on May 28, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Attracting Scarce F&P Government Funds for our LRT+"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">, I have informally <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">made some progress with both GEXR and CP<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> towards possible time-locked track-sharing. Integral to making very significant progress with </span>both<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> of them is assisting CP in implementing the best solution to their track (safety, grade climbing & river- track wipeout ) problems. This is very important to help secure Toyota's future in Cambridge by helping CP in turn secure safer and more functional rail access to the Cambridge plant -- and help avoid a possible </span>very costly<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> CP/Toyota rail disaster (waiting-to-happen) in the process!</span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div>To this end I hope that some key Regional and Cambridge staff will be able to better use their intelligence so as to overcome their irrational fears of CP rail crossing the back part of Riverside Park-- even if done very tastefully and for very, very important reasons pertaining to human safety and preserving Toyota jobs at least!!</div><div><br></div><div><div>So to repeat somewhat from the previous email, this is a <b>slightly modified and enhanced </b>draft of an expanded LRT article in which I use more new IDEAS to try to give the Provincial and Federal Governments more reasons -- beyond an enhanced LRT system design -- why they should give us scarce funds for the Region's LRT project. To this end, I am doing very original thinking about this wider area's future -- and an LRT network's vital role -- which no other individuals are doing by themselves.</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>I also again try to build on the shoulders of the Region's greatest visionary, UofW President David Johnston. (I hope that David stays in this area -- that he has helped shape so much --after his retirement and that he will play a continuing transformational visionary-leadership role.)</div><div><br></div><div><div>And of course I'm very open to suggestions for changes, even major changes, in the IDEAS or manner of expression. </div><div><br></div><div>***************************************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Further updated version of LRT article (with most of the changes/enhancements in the bottom part -- see APPENDIX 5 here for Fred Green's speech):</b></div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3" style="font-size: 15px; "><b>IDEAS to Enhance our LRT: Towards world-class pioneering sustainable innovation </b></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; 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">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">In the next decade, the university is committed to building a better future for Canada and the world by <b>championing innovation and collaboration</b> to create solutions relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/aboutuw/">http://uwaterloo.ca/aboutuw/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">"(To get it right, we need) to <b>think outside the traditional light rail box</b>. ... . (NJ's <b>River LINE</b> is) not only an alternative to the automobile, but is also helping to re-energize the historic communities it links together." Al Fazio, US <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">LRT executive and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">professor.</span> (See APPENDIX 4)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Regional Council and staff -- led by very successful long-serving Chair Ken Seiling -- should be commended for their very strong support of our truly important light rail transit (LRT) system design that has the potential to help give this area the smart infrastructure necessary for a future Knowledge Capital of Canada.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Yes, this light rail transit LRT project is our most complex </font></span><span style="color: black; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">and expensive (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><span style="color: black; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">$1B+)</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">urban infrastructure challenge ever. </font></span><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Scarce tax money -- </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">federal, provincial, and municipal -- will be invested. As well,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; "> </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Waterloo</font><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></font></span></st1:place></st1:city><font size="3"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="color: black; "><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Region's reputation for leading-edge technological innovation will be influenced by the success -- or not -- of the LRT system design.</span></font></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">But. analysis of the current LRT system design indicates <b>some serious, </b><b>yet advantageously<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>surmountable,</b> track-routing and other flaws. These flaws would not only affect the attainment of the project's principal goals of high middle-class <b>ridership</b> and high urban-core <b>intensification <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">but also greatly inflate the cost.</span></b></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">With so much at stake,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">the LRT system design's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">cost-effectiveness needs to be optimized -- reducing its risk in the process. This can be largely achieved if the LRT system design is enhanced at least by proven rail transportation IDEAS. But more, the design must meet the very high "Waterloo benchmarks" for innovation and collaboration set by the University of Waterloo and our hi-tech businesses.</span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Such IDEAS will be found, created and used to great advantage only if politicians and staff are willing and able to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">"think outside the traditional light rail box". </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">But the Region's current approach to the LRT system design is just the opposite. Despite our World crises demanding very innovative World class design -- especially in all large projects -- their approach remains the conventional "stovepipe" where past LRT designs are repeated despite the uniqueness of our urban transportation infrastructure.</span></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></b></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Goal achievement problems</span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="font-family: '', 'Times New Roman', ''; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">At the foundation of the Region's proposed LRT system design are the two principal goals. High middle-class <b>ridership</b> reduces car use thereby decreasing traffic congestion. High urban-core <b>intensification</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">helps lessen urban sprawl. It would be catalyzed by the LRT and new bylaws. Such intensification efforts are strongly supported by Provincial Places to Grow policies. </span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Outside LRT experts and Regional staff say that these interrelated goals should be balanced, that is given a similar weighting. <b>But such intended goal balancing is not achieved in the current LRT system design nor is goal balancing alone sufficient for project design success.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">In fact, for optimal cost-effectiveness the goals should "collaborate" to their greater mutual benefit, i.e. be synergistic where 1+1=3+. And a synergistic "collaboration" of the LRT goals of high ridership and high intensification can also be much better achieved by <b>"thinking outside the traditional light rail box".</b></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">The reality of the current LRT system design -- specifically its track-route design -- is that it will cause the project's goals to "fight" each other in parts of the routing -- the intensification corridors. That is, as the LRT necessarily passes through an intensification corridor, the average speed (ridership's key factor) would be counteracted by a greater frequency of stops (intensification's key factor). </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">In the Region's intensification corridor design, they were forced to cut back on the frequency of stops</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">so that speed did not suffer too much. This makes their intensification corridor design sub-optimal compared to what could be possible!</span></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Relative to a rail right-of-way -- despite dedicated LRT lanes and traffic light control -- an optimally designed LRT road intensification corridor will always have a significantly slower average speed because of: the close proximity of other vehicles and many pedestrians, the many intersections, greater accident proneness, and the higher frequency of stops necessary for optimal intensification. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Further, because an LRT traveling on a road intensification corridor will have a slower average speed and be limited in LRT vehicle length, it will have much less ridership capacity than LRT vehicles operating on a rail right-of-way.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">As a result, LRT road intensification corridors -- and roads used mainly as LRT route-connectors like Frederick St. -- will create speed and capacity bottlenecks. This would occur because the current LRT route-design forces the LRT vehicles to use these road corridors -- an enhanced approach to LRT routing is needed. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Ridership Corridors to the Rescue</span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Why spend as much as $billions on an LRT system design likely to be disappointing? And can the key track-route design problems -- not yet recognized by the conventional-thinking experts -- be solved? Can the potential of our unique transportation infrastructure be better adapted to and utilized? But first, let's look at things from a different perspective using an analogy from physics, specifically electrical circuits.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">The Region's LRT track-route design might be called a <b>"series"</b> (vs. "parallel") type because all vehicles travel along basically the same routing. This is analogous to an electrical circuit where electrons travel through "devices" that can be in series or in parallel -- or both. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Two minor exceptions occur where the two tracks on a road are split onto two <b>"parallel" </b>roads. This happens in the downtowns of Kitchener and Waterloo where the preferred roads have sufficient road capacity for only one track. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Eureka! The current LRT track-route design partially uses the rail right-of-way and in a "series" manner. So let's use this concept more fully. "Why not" extend the "parallel" road idea to the whole rail right-of-way that essentially runs in a "parallel" -- and often concurrent -- manner to the current LRT track-route design? </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">This new "parallel" rail right-of-way corridor would overlay the current track-route design. It would run from a new Northfield terminal to the Ainslie Terminal. To describe its intent, let's call it the <b>Ridership Corridor <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">and interconnect it intermittently to the "parallel" intensification corridors.</span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">With such a ridership corridor the bottlenecks on the intensification (and connection) road corridors can be by-passed by LRT vehicles that have picked up riders traveling a longer distance. Also, stop frequency on the intensification corridors can now be optimized because lost time can be recovered upon switching onto the faster <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Ridership Corridor<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> -- and this time-saving means better intensification.</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Let's use the King Street South LRT intensification corridor as a specific example. How could the relevant section of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">rail right-of-way routing (part of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Ridership Corridor<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">) be configured so that it would be both "parallel" to and interconnect with this intensification corridor? </span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">First, use the Iron Horse Trail from Caroline Street to the CN mainline -- there are many US precedents for converting trails into rail/trails with at least a separating fence. Two tracks would be used except possibly between Caroline and John Streets. A station at Union Blvd. would attract riders from Sun Life and help intensify Belmont St, (so designated by Kitchener).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Second, build a CN mainline underpass -- at a 45 degree angle -- so that the 2 LRT tracks can extend along the south-side of the CN mainline right-of-way to a new multimodal HUB between Joseph and King Streets. This new section of the LRT routing at least would make a very expensive and problematic (toxins, flooding, etc.) 2-track LRT tunnel/station under King St. and the CN mainline no longer necessary.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">The King Street South LRT intensification corridor and the proposed "parallel" rail right-of-way would</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">interconnect on Caroline at Allen St. and the Kitchener HUB. The Kings South intensification corridor would connect initially to the HUB by simply crossing CN's mainline and spur line at a 45 degree angle towards the west. If needed in the future, the HUB connection could be made from the west part of Wellington St. via a CN track overpass/station.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">And now possibly, if the current HUB property (King-Victoria-Duke-'CN line') were released , then combined with the adjacent Breithaupt St. properties, we could have a potentially new UofW Kitchener Research and Technology Park! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">This is but one side-benefit that could result indirectly from the new IDEA of an interconnected Ridership Corridor. But let's explore more of the ridership corridor's potential.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Just imagine an LRT vehicle traveling on the ridership corridor that significantly "shrinks" trip time by the combined effect of its higher speed and capacity, its rapid acceleration and braking, its just-in-time bus connections and better bus routing, its less frequent stations and shorter end-to-end route, its mostly double tracks and its off-road "protection" from accident delays. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Mostly it would be very similar to NJ's successful River LINE but be electrified. (See enclosed photo &</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_nj002.htm">http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_nj002.htm</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">)</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">The ridership corridor would also be the "success engine" that battles traffic congestion by attracting many middle class people out of their cars. This will help clean our air and make driving a more enjoyable experience for those who must use their cars. Our quality of life will be enhanced so that businesses and universities prosper more.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">"Success Engine" for Intensification also</span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">In addition, the ridership corridor would be a "Success Engine" for intensification in two ways. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Firstly, its own less frequent stations would help the area around them intensify. Important new areas that would be intensified would be Belmont St. (Union Blvd. Station), Queen St (Queen St. Station) and the Dundas-Beverly area (Beverly St. Station).</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Secondly, it would help make intensification corridors more successful. The aura of the LRT system's great ridership success will create demand for working and living space in the intensification corridor. And the ridership corridor's much lower average trip time will greatly contribute towards decreasing trip times for riders starting in an intensification corridor. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">And as previously stated, the intensification corridors could now be designed with the optimal frequency of stops for intensification purposes. </font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; "> </span></div></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Our stage one </span>intensification corridor<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> would be K-W's King Street South, The example of its success would soon inspire developers and governments to commit to other designated intensification corridors such as Duke-Charles-Ottawa Streets and Hespler Road. </span></b></span></span></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">And as riders travel along an intensification corridor, their LRT vehicle would use one track -- like the Portland Streetcar known around the World for very successful intensification. But unlike it, our LRT vehicle would move in both directions made possible by 2-track passing at some stops -- with the assistance of Intelligent Transportation System technology. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">(See Case Study: Portland Streetcar,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://metro-cincinnati.info/?page_id=982)">http://metro-cincinnati.info/?page_id=982)</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">And with only one track being necessary -- because of the high-capacity Ridership Corridor carrying most of the riders -- an LRT intensification corridor could now be extended up King North Street past WLU and eventually to Conestoga Mall.</span></b></span></span></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">When it comes to cost savings most people don't realize how much more it costs to put 2 tracks along a road as compared to 1 track on a road or 2 tracks along a rail right-of-way. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">And one-track-only along a road gives more flexibility in avoiding underground utilities. Also there would be less use of roads and more of rail right-of-ways -- at least in the initial stages. Both of these possibilities at least mean less use and/or a more time-dispersed use of the $100 budgeted to move underground and above ground utilities!</span></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Also, just think how much it costs to build a station-tunnel under the CN line ($30M+) or a 2-track highway 7&8 underpass or a 2-track bridge over the Grand River or a 3-track bridge over the Speed River. And there are also 2-track bridges over numerous creeks. With track sharing, all of these massive expenditures can be avoided with a few much smaller cost exceptions. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">But optimal track sharing requires pioneering new relationships with the railways.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Synergistic Collaboration with CP and GEXR</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">For the cost of the ridership corridor to be sufficiently affordable -- in these very tough economic times for both the public and private sectors -- various new forms of synergistic collaboration with CP/Toyota and GEXR/CN will have to be created. These new relationships would likely centre mostly around mutual financial and performance advantages.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">At present, discussions with CP/Toyota seem to need a stronger common interest to advance further. Such a common interest could centre around CP's need for an optimal solution to potentially very serious problems caused by the extreme track grade between Eagle and Fountain Streets. The nature of these problems relates to track safety, train delay and even long Toyota plant closures.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Of the three possible solutions considered by CP, the best appears to involve the crossing of the City of Cambridge's Riverside Park. But to obtain the various necessary approvals, they would likely need a public partner such as the Region via its LRT project. Likely they would need some funding from the Provincial and Federal governments -- and the Region as a junior partner.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">The two higher levels of government might justify significant funding for a few reasons: 1) to help keep Canada's most innovative area -- Waterloo Region -- economically strong by helping avoid the possibility of Toyota shifting significant production to Woodstock; 2) to indirectly help defray a large amount of the costs of LRT use of parts of the rail right-of-way achieved by CP in return at least agreeing to limit their use of the spur line from the Courtland exchange yard to approx. .5km south from the Grand River bridge to the hours of 1:00 AM to 5:00AM.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">The Region could invest at least the cost of building a 3-track bridge across the Speed River at the current site. They would find the existing CP bridge sufficient if the previous IDEAS suggested for bridges are used by the Region. If the Region also uses the Ridership Corridor IDEA, then they could make arrangements with CP to use the new 'Riverside Park crossover'/'Speed River bridge'/etc. during the rush hour periods to save time.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">And this could be a way that indirect Provincial and Federal funding could assist the realization of the RTI project.</font></div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">GEXR is a part of Rail America and is renting CN track in this general area -- and the Region's Elmira spur line. While they are somewhat open to collaborating with the Region on time-locked track sharing on part of their rented track, specifics need to be worked out. If we could present them with a Grand Plan type IDEA that could help improve the efficiency and extent of their operations, then they would likely be very interested in collaborating to a much greater degree.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Such a plan might take the form of GEXR being able to use all of the Region's "faster-moving" track at night so as to interconnect GEXR's track in Cambridge with that in Kitchener. Perhaps they would then be able to exchange rail cars at CP's own Sportsworld Drive rail yard.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">A possible GO-Transit SW described in the section by the same name below could greatly extend even more GEXR's night service on fast track.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Such IDEAS would are a possible basis for viable synergistic collaborations with the railways -- in effect, very strong mutually advantageous public/private partnerships! But there is another potential public/private partnership that especially the Federal government would appreciate. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">Structuring the LRT system design to attract Bombardier</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">The Ridership Corridor IDEA will create an LRT system design where an LRT train on the rail right-of-way plays the major role and an LRT streetcar less so. Yet the goal of intensification will be better and</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">less expensively realized.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">But <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">now the suggested LRT system design is structured to attract big rail players such as Bombardier. It is they who operate the GO-Trains. But more relevant, Bombardier is the key player in New Jersey Transit's (analogous to GO-Transit) River LINE Perhaps we can at least emulate their "Unique Rail" approach as they describe it:</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; "><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px; line-height: 1.6em; ">"The equipment, the operating plan, the public-private partnership that built and operates the system and other aspects of the River LINE represent new and innovative approaches to rail transit service. Combining them all in one package geared to provide the most service at the best price in an area that was previously transit deficient makes the whole project close to revolutionary. The unconventional River LINE offers a number of interesting attributes:</p><ul style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px; "><li style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 10px; background-image: url(http://www.masstransitmag.com/design/images/bullet.gif); background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 5px; background-position: 0px 3px; ">*a turnkey design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM) approach to construction and on-going operation by a consortium of suppliers, including Bombardier Transportation which now operates and maintains the system;</li><li style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 10px; background-image: url(http://www.masstransitmag.com/design/images/bullet.gif); background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 5px; background-position: 0px 3px; ">...........................................................................................................................................................;</li><li style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 10px; background-image: url(http://www.masstransitmag.com/design/images/bullet.gif); background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 5px; background-position: 0px 3px; ">*new-build line segments that combine dedicated LRT median running and streetcar- like operation in mixed traffic;</li><li style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 10px; background-image: url(http://www.masstransitmag.com/design/images/bullet.gif); background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 5px; background-position: 0px 3px; ">*time-shared use with Conrail freight trains for much of the route; and</li><li style="list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 10px; background-image: url(http://www.masstransitmag.com/design/images/bullet.gif); background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 5px; background-position: 0px 3px; ">*an inventive combination of advanced rail traffic control, automatic train stop signaling, and temporal separation that yields maximum safety and track availability for passengers and freight alike." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://www.masstransitmag.com/print/Mass-Transit/Unique-Rail/1$2192)">http://www.masstransitmag.com/print/Mass-Transit/Unique-Rail/1$2192)</a></span></li></ul></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">This seems to be the type of public/private venture that the Feds would like to see. But a new IDEA for a bigger LRT and night freight network -- possibly involving GO-Transit -- could increase further the attractiveness for Bombardier to become involved in such a manner.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div></span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">GO-Transit SW (South West) ?</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Guelph wants a passenger rail connection to Cambridge. GO-Transit -- stated as part of MTO's new highway 24 project -- would like to have at least a Brantford to Cambridge rail connection. If the Region's LRT system design was able to integrate with the expressed potential plans of Guelph and GO-Transit, then the value to the Province of the LRT project would be further increased.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Joined with the Region's LRT network, this could take the form of a GO-Transit SW (South West) -- or called the Grand River Line -- based on LRT. To date, GO-Transit -- unlike New Jersey Transit -- has not incorporated LRT as part of its rail passenger network despite their heavy rail passenger vehicles being more expensive to operate and purchase.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Or course, GO-Transit cannot take advantage of the benefits of LRT on the main lines as safety </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">regulations in Canada -- unlike Europe -- prohibit it. But on the infrequently used heavy rail spur lines,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">time-locked track sharing is more realistic. The GEXR/CN spur rail line from Guelph to Cambridge is infrequently used -- and it continues through Cambridge (Hespler) until the future Hespler Road rail 2-track underpass.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Instead of a rail line constructed as part of a very controversial proposed new highway 24, one of the two -- or a combination -- existing rail corridors from Cambridge(Galt) to Brantford could be used. One is now a trail along the Grand River -- a rail/trail is possible. The other -- after following highway 24 for approx. 7 km. from the Cambridge's Ainslie Terminal, turns left , eventually following parallel to highway 24 about 4 km. inland.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">If such a new fast LRT track were constructed, then GEXR's could have an opportunity to further expand its potential night freight operation to Brantford. This future possibility would add to the anticipated advantages to GEXR of synergistically collaborating on track sharing with the Region's LRT system.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Such a GO-Transit SW LRT line would connect Brantford primarily with the GO-Train in Guelph. A future connection to the GO-Train in Hamilton would likely be desirable from GO-Transit's viewpoint..</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">As the advantages of using the LRT become more universally recognized for very cost-efficient inter-city travel -- particularly between the smaller cities outside the GTA -- then the Province and GO-Transit will start to explore their use on mainline CP & CN rail corridors to, for example, interconnect with Woodstock and Stratford.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Here, most likely a separate LRT track would be built on one side of the mainline corridor. Much less likely, advances in Intelligent Transportation System technology may make safe 24-hour LRT multi-modal track sharing possible.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Surviving sustainably in a very complex World at least means that collaborative dreams and vision must drive our innovation in our interrelated businesses, governments and communities. Today we must all be so driven -- or our species will die off!</font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Persuading governments by a Grand Vision for our area's future</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">If the Region of Waterloo hopes to get funding from the Governments of Ontario and Canada despite these very tough economic times and the competition from other major centres like Toronto, then -- as both these governments might expect from the most innovative area in Canada -- we will have to expand the project to become part of a more complex future-thinking venture. And it must be extraordinarily innovative!</font></div><div><br></div></span></b></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">This Grand Vision could include the vision of University of Waterloo President David Johnston -- this area as the Knowledge Capital of Canada by 2010. He set 10 goals to achieve this. And influenced by Richard Florida's writing's on the creative class, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">”<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">Johnston said ''this area welcomes new people and new IDEAS".</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Johnston implies that a Knowledge Capital is based largely on new creative IDEAS. "And as we move beyond 2010", he says, "each and every one of (us has) to do (our) part to see our performance improve and our goals continue to be achieved". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Very important for the further success of the Knowledge Capital venture -- or any other large public project -- is this Region's "barn raising" tradition wherein he says "we work collaboratively to (potentially) accomplish what any one individual cannot." Such collaboration would be be synergistic if successful.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">One of David's 10 goals is Smart Infrastructure -- which includes Smart Transit. The "Waterloo benchmark" IDEAS suggested to help enhance the Region's LRT system design towards greater cost-effectiveness would help create a World-class Sustainable Innovation that is Smart Transit.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Some hi-tech community leaders want to amalgamate the cities of Waterloo and Kitchener. Their prime motivation is so that the new city -- likely Waterloo because the name has greater value in the World -- can have a "bigger World splash". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Certainly being big enough to be noticed on the World stage is very important for university and business success. But to follow the example of the University of Waterloo who has extended its campus to Stratford -- and WLU to Brantford -- "why not" extend the Region of Waterloo to a more inclusive Greater Waterloo District (like Toronto's GTA and Vancouver's GVRD)?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Our Greater Waterloo District could include Cambridge, Guelph, Stratford, Woodstock, Brantford and</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">(where applicable) their associated Counties. And especially if this also becomes our broader Knowledge</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Capitla of Canada focus, then -- as we rapidly develop -- what a World splash we will create!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">More, we will also have an expanding Grand River Line (or GO-Transit SW) to sustainably and</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">efficiently connect us. And Jim Balsillie would have a perfect area for his new NHL team, the Waterloo</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Innovators.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; ">The resulting smart LRT infrastructure would be an essential support as we create a wonderful Knowledge and Innovation exemplar to the World -- where collaboration and sustainability are championed -- of which all Canadians can be proud! Now the Provincial and Federal governments would see our enhanced LRT system design proposal as part of a Grand Plan in harmony with our highest innovative aspirations. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3">Then our higher level politicians can better justify to the people of Ontario and Canada why this area -- potentially a Greater Waterloo District -- would merit scarce government financial resources for our LRT project.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>Robert Milligan</b> is a member of Transport Action Ontario (formerly Transport 2000). He has a BSc in math-physics. a Graduate Diploma in Education and has completed many other courses including ones in industrial engineering, operations research and environmental health. He was a high school teacher, business systems analyst and environmental health analyst. Much of his time in retirement is now given freely to public projects, especially those with significant environmental and health features.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><div class="photoSource" style="margin-top: 0px; "><img alt="The River LINE operates" height="133" width="304" style="margin-top: 0px; " src="cid:A9B9871A-3B2E-4495-BE1E-CECA4A6EA0C1@lan"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; ">The River LINE operates on the same rails as Conrail via a temporal separation. While <b>River LINE </b>vehicles are on the tracks, Conrail is not allowed on and vice versa.</div></span></font></div></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">See</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://www.masstransitmag.com/print/Mass-Transit/Unique-Rail/1$2192)">http://www.masstransitmag.com/print/Mass-Transit/Unique-Rail/1$2192)</a></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 18px; "><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.stadlerrail.com/en/vehicles/gtw/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; float: left; width: 223px; background-image: url(http://www.stadlerrail.com/media/img/vehicle_finder_bg.jpg); background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-position: 0px -1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br></span></font></a></span></div><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: Arial; line-height: normal; "><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; "><br></div><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; "><br></div><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.stadlerrail.com/en/vehicles/gtw/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; float: left; width: 223px; background-image: url(http://www.stadlerrail.com/media/img/vehicle_finder_bg.jpg); background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-position: 0px -1px; "><img alt="Pic for GTW" height="49" width="72" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; 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float: left; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://metro-cincinnati.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/streetcar_pdx_construction.jpg" style="color: rgb(84, 97, 136); "><img class="size-medium wp-image-1136" title="streetcar_pdx_construction" alt="" width="300" height="210" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; max-width: 99%; " src="cid:440F2666-E6B2-4115-99BE-1AA8F389D74B@lan"></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; ">New construction along the route of the Portland Streetcar (Photo: Brad Thomas / CincyStreetcar Blog)</p><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div></div></span></span></font></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></font></div></span></div><div class="photoCaption" style="margin-top: 0px; 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"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">(Case Study: Portland Streetcar,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://metro-cincinnati.info/?page_id=982)">http://metro-cincinnati.info/?page_id=982)</a></span></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; 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"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b>APPENDIX</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">1. SUGGESTED RIDERSHIP CORRIDOR</span></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The "train" LRT rail right-of-way corridor could extend from a new park-and-go terminal at Northfield Dr. to the existing Ainslie St. Terminal. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">It would be composed of the following sections: Waterloo spur line -- Caroline Street -- Iron Horse Trail (rail/trail) -- north side of main CN line (via new 45 degree underpass) -- King/Joseph multi-modal HUB -- CN/CP spur line south to other side (~500m) of Grand R. -- bypass of CP/Toyota switching yard to Fountain St. -- parallel to CP track to Dolph St. AND CP line crossing Riverside Park and Speed R (new) to Dolph St. (rush hours only) -- CN line to Hespler Rd. -- existing Grand Trunk corridor (via CP line underpass) -- Mill Creek Trail (rail/trail) -- Wellington St. The only extraordinary costs would for the 45 degree CN underpass and for a minority share of the costs of the Riverside Park (berm) and Speed River (bridge) crossing.</span></span></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></span></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><br></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></div></span></div><div><div><b>2. Why Cambridge & a Berm/Bridge Crossing of Riverside Pk., Speed R., Eagle St., ... ?</b></div><div><b> </b></div><div>If an LRT is going to be built in the Region, certainly it is unfair to not have Cambridge</div><div>connected from the beginning with all its attendant benefits for Cambridge. But even the K-W part of the LRT will suffer. That is, by not including Cambridge fewer people will use the K-W section because the BRT "feeder" in Cambridge will by its nature (buses have a stigma, etc.) attract fewer people.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, the current LRT system design was primarily intended to intensify (according to Ken & Carl) with ridership a poor second. I am certainly not against intensification when roads are ready and once we are more certain that it can work by an initial "proving" intensification corridor (K-W's King West/ South)</div><div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>My enhanced design proposal puts a much greater emphasis on ridership. This is especially important because if ridership is very low in relation to cost, then the LRT will be given a failure stigma and be less persuasive with intensifying developers.</div><div><br></div><div>But as we prosper, traffic problems will worsen. The LRT can help greatly <b>IF <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">it is designed to attract the middle class out of their cars (now it is mostly students and the working poor). Primarily that means a much shorter travel time than the current road-dominant design permits. And the only way to achieve much lower travel times is to have a fast "ridership" corridor along the existing rail right-of-way -- with interconnected intensification corridors as needed.</span></b></div><div><br></div><div>However, there is a major problem with using the rail right-of-way -- that of obtaining good cooperation from the railways, especially CP. You know well the difficulties the Region had with CP over the Hespler Rd. overpass. But now CP has a problem themselves -- a Toyota affecting problem of potentially great magnitude, But it is also a potential problem for Cambridge and the Region. </div><div><br></div><div>A CP employee told me that the Eagle to Fountain grade is among the worst in their rail net work, especially since curvature is equivalent to grade. Yes they do have a problem going up the grade which I have known for some time -- occasionally they can't make it to the top of the grade! But I didn't know that they had a much worse type of problem going down -- <b>a very serious safety problem! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Yes their brakes are adequate for normal grades but this grade is not normal. As a result, they often find themselves going too fast as they cross </span>the curvilinear Speed River bridge, a bridge of questionable adequacy! </b></div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Just imagine what might happen to current production &/or future expansion at the Toyota plant if a rail tragedy occurred because the the bridge collapsed -- especially when the new Woodstock facility is likely capable of significant expansion! </span></b></div><div><br></div><div>And this potential problem must be further underlined by the potential loss on life including the engineeer and many on the adjacent road bridge as the rail cars coming down the grade pile-up!</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>But more<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">,</span> an increasing likely large storm could cause a raging Speed River<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> -- as it curves around the river bend going in the direction of that section of rail line (in the floodplain adjacent to the river) between the bridge and the Eagle St. crossing -- </span>to wipe out that section of track! </b></div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">With all these actual and potential problems, it is no wonder that CP wants a solution. </span>And their preferred solution is a crossing of Riverside Park, the Speed River, Eagle St., Westminster St., Laurel St., ... .</b></div><div><div><div><br></div><div>But, to make this crossing they would need the cooperation/approval of Cambridge, the Region, GRCA, etc. Obviously -- because of Toyota at least -- it is Cambridge's advantage to cooperate. However, government (F & P +) money would be needed. Also existing laws may require direct government participation in the project to help deal with existing laws, regulations, policies, etc. (a public/private partnership?). </div><div><br></div><div>For example, the Region could use the money it would otherwise spend on a 3-track bridge across the Speed R. and put that towards its junior partnership share in the "Park Crossing & Bridge" P/P joint venture. But in return the Region could require from CP at least: 1) exclusive use of the CP spur line (from Courtland Ave, to approx. 200m. from the Grand River Bridge on the Cambridge side) between the hours of 5:00 AM and 1:00 AM: 2) exclusive use of the "Park Crossing & Bridge" during rush-hour periods.</div><div><br></div><div>This is called <b>synergistic collaboration</b> where all parties involved (Cambridge, Region, CP, Toyota, Prov,, Feds, -- even GEXR) directly and indirectly benefit in ways not otherwise possible.</div><div><br></div><div>And this is but one IDEA that is part of an enhanced LRT system design for a much more successful LRT that i<b>ncludes Cambridge from the get-go -- and so that the K-W section has greater ridership and thereby greater intensification!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">3. Hamilton & Wireless systems using battery or fuel cells </span></div><div><br></div><div>So much money could be saved on the need for 3 copper wire systems (catenary + 2 stray current wires) if we were more forwardly innovative in our thinking as they are in Hamilton, viz.</div><div><br></div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; ">Hamilton itself is planning for two LRT lines, which should be among the first generation to be built. These lines should be built in Hamilton using the most competitive and advanced technology available (e.g. wireless systems using battery or fuel cells).</span>"<div><a href="http://hamiltonlightrail.com/article/coc_resolution_light_rail_transit_made_in_hamilton/">http://hamiltonlightrail.com/article/coc_resolution_light_rail_transit_made_in_hamilton/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> They did it with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; "><a name="battery">Storage battery cars <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">way back in " ...</span></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_choice.cfm?id=49&photoid=1125672859" target="_misc"><img width="100" height="64" alt="Canadian Northern electric car 100 built by Brill in 1917 (CN)" title="Canadian Northern electric car 100 built by Brill in 1917 (CN)" align="left" src="cid:514E81F0-978D-46E1-9802-AEC1165100F4@lan"></a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "> the 1920's and 1930's (when) three Canadian mainline railways, <i>Canadian National Railways</i>, <i>Canadian Pacific Railway Company</i>, and <i>Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway</i> operated storage battery cars on several lines. In most of these cases service never approached interurban levels, nor were they considered separate from the railways' steam-hauled services. The largest user, the <i>CNR</i>, had retired all its storage battery cars by 1942. (Photo: CN Images of Canada: Canada Science and Technology Museum)</span>"</div><div>Locally, such a passenger rail vehicle was run by the CPR from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">Galt to Hamilton, Ontario -- a trip of 55km/34.4mi.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/other-modes.html">http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/other-modes.html</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">That such an IDEA is feasible NOW for our LRT is suggested by the proven <b>Proterra nano-battery driven electric bus</b> (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://green.autoblog.com/2009/05/06/proterra-electric-bus-gets-over-20-mpge-in-tests/">http://green.autoblog.com/2009/05/06/proterra-electric-bus-gets-over-20-mpge-in-tests/</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">):</span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial; line-height: 19px; ">The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State just had the chance to put the <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/tag/Proterra/" style="color: rgb(0, 94, 32); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Proterra</a> electric bus through some fuel economy tests in Altoona, PA and it was there that the <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/tag/Altairnano" style="color: rgb(0, 94, 32); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Altairnano</a>-powered people mover generated some head-turning miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) numbers. After going through three different duty cycles, the worst result returned was 17.55 MPGe, while the best was 29.23 MPGe, earned during the "commuter" phase which featured just one stop and speeds of up to 40 mph. The "central business district" phase which included 7 stops per mile and speeds of up to 20 mph gave an impressive result of 21.35 MPGe. The performance is even more amazing when you consider that the tests were performed at a gross vehicle weight of 36,680 lbs which simulated a full complement of 38 seated passengers, another 34 standing and, of course, a driver. </span></span></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br style="line-height: 0.8em; "></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial; line-height: 19px; ">How does that compare with buses in service today? According to Proterra president Jeff Granato, <b>"The test validated that Proterra's 35-foot transit bus achieves up to 400 percent better performance than today's conventional diesel or competitor's hybrid transit buses."</b> The results, combined with the ability to conveniently fast-charge the battery, make for a bus that's efficient, effective and, at the street level at least, emissions free. Hit the jump for a video of some battery bus riding action and a press release with more details.</span>"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">4. </span>Designing New Light Rail: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; ">Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla </span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">"As light rail transit (LRT) systems mature and expand, outlying passengers are faced with </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">increasingly longer trip times to reach the urban core. Providing service to these customers </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">by conventional means can be disproportionately expensive for the transit carrier in terms of </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">operating and capital expense. Innovative operational practices to expedite train movements, </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">however, are often confounded by current LRT design and deployment methods. This is partly </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">attributable to design methods that follow a “stovepipe” approach to individual engineering </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">disciplines and components, rather than directing focus on optimizing railway functionality and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">flexibility as a comprehensive entity. It is also attributable, in part, to a failure to address the </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">ultimate potential of a railway at the definition/developmental stage and to subsequently </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">articulate and document the operational requirements that are necessary to support the stated </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">mission. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">This paper provides a survey of the critical engineering “systems” that comprise a light </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">electrified passenger railway, and suggests those that are most significant in affecting innovative </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">operational practices. It illustrates the model relationship between operations and systems design </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">by a case study based on the first implementation of express service on a modern LRT system." </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec058/11_01_Fazio.pdf">http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec058/11_01_Fazio.pdf</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">5. CP President Advocates "Higher Collaboration" with All Stakeholders Including Local </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><b> Governments </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "><a name="Content" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><font class="PageHeader" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Fred Green addresses the Canadian Railway Club <br></font><br></a>December 6, 2006<br>Montreal, PQ<br><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="right"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="middle" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: square; "></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font size="2">“Taking Action to Strengthen <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s </font><font size="2">Transportation System and Trade Gateways”</font></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br>Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It's wonderful to be back in Montreal again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">And it's always a great pleasure to be with friends, colleagues and fellow railroaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Organizations like the Canadian Railway Club provide us an opportunity to build relationships, share experiences and advance our great industry.<span> </span>The Club has been fulfilling this role for almost 105 years, and I wish the Club at least another century of success.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Today I'd like to update you on what my Company is doing and how we are doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Perhaps, more importantly, I also want to share my thoughts about the <b>need for urgency </b><b><u></u>for Canadians to work together with vision and purpose to create the "efficient and secure transportation networks and gateways"</b> that are vital to Canada's economic productivity and competitiveness – both for today and for future generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">And finally, I'd like to raise a serious and current issue about public policy making that we should all be concerned about.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">First, a quick update about CPR.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">In 2005, CPR established a vision for its future.<span> </span>That vision is to be the safest, most fluid railway in North America.<span> </span>We believe that with our 16,000 employees focusing on this, we will deliver benefits to all our stakeholders, including customers, communities, investors and governments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We are <b>bringing our vision to life through "Execution Excellence"</b> and through it <span>we're transforming the railway into a highly efficient business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Through Execution Excellence we are building a strong performance culture — and producing significantly improved results.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We have <b>sharply improved our overall efficiency with positive results in terms of train speed,</b> car miles per day, and terminal dwell, to name a few.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">On the safety front, personal injury rates improved 20% this year.<span> </span>FRA train accidents have been reduced this year by 49%.<span> </span>In fact, CPR leads all North American Class 1 railroads in train operations safety.<span> </span><b>Our commitment to safety never wavers and being first in this space is personally very important to me.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Finally, we're delivering on our financial commitments in 2006 in all areas – revenues; cost reductions; and earnings per share.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Our people are engaged and their productivity continues to improve as we see Execution Excellence in every job that we do.<span> </span>You might be interested to know that two-thirds of our Canadian employees are shareholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>To get to where we are today, we've also made significant financial investments for the future and challenged old paradigms:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">we've expanded key corridors;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">purchased new locomotives and rail cars; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">put extra effort into operational cooperation with our competitors and other players in the transportation supply chain to improve efficiencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Last year, we started and completed a $180-million expansion of our Western Corridor between the Prairies and Vancouver.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This investment has been great news for our customers.<span> </span>This is our busiest stretch of track, and we've improved fluidity on this strategic corridor and increased rail capacity by between 13 and 15%.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Changes and improvements are happening across our network, including the Montreal Terminal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Earlier this year, we completed the sale of the Outremont Yard to the Université de Montréal.<span> </span>We're proud to see this historic piece of railway property being used <b>for the good of the community and future generations.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This sale, along with the earlier sale of the Glen Yard for a new hospital, triggered a reorganization of our Montreal Terminal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">With our Lachine Intermodal Terminal nearing capacity and with growing intermodal traffic coming from Europe and Asia, we're now planning a new intermodal facility on a large property we acquired earlier this year at Les Cèdres in Vaudreuil-Soulanges.<span> </span>The site will be larger than 500 acres.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Strategically located in proximity to three major roads – highways 20, 40 and the upcoming bypass-highway 30 – this new facility will become a key part of CPR's freight transportation and distribution network in eastern Canada.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We're currently completing the design and planning aspects of this project and will soon submit it for approval.<span> </span><b>We're working closely with municipal and government authorities and other interested parties so that we can better respond to any local priorities and concerns.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This investment is part of a long-term plan to expand our facilities to meet growing domestic and international demand for the transportation of manufactured products.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">To further increase rail capacity and improve efficiency on our network, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">we've also sought out opportunities for greater cooperation at the operations level with our rail competitors and other players in the supply chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Over the past several years, CPR has formed co-production arrangements with Canadian and U.S. railroads across North America.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Here in Quebec, shippers are benefiting from the revival of the Delaware & Hudson Railway – our line in New York and Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">With leadership from our AVP Guido DeCiccio, we restructured the D&H in 2004 and rationalized its operations, entering into a series of cooperative arrangements involving both CN and Norfolk Southern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This means shorter, more direct routes for goods flowing between Quebec and your important trading partners in the eastern U.S. <span> </span>This has been good for the D&H and for our customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>Collaboration can also take many other forms.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">For example, recently CPR along with CN have developed, and are now offering, a proactive "commercial dispute resolution" model that we hope will deliver a better, more timely and efficient outcome for all parties – shippers, the government and ourselves.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The new process offers mediation and arbitration for most rate and service matters, deals with the application of ancillary charges, and proposes a Canada Transportation Agency review on the level of ancillary and supplemental charges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It is illustrative of <b>our philosophy at CPR, one that's based upon positive relations with customers and other stakeholders.</b><span><b> </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">These and other initiatives are making a significant difference to my Company, to shippers, to the railway industry and for the whole transportation supply chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>I have seen the power of getting our team focused on a common vision and I have already seen some of the benefits that can be realized when a common vision is shared and acted upon by multiple parties.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This has strengthened my belief that a "common vision" is needed to quickly improve the efficiency of Canada's transportation system and trade gateways so that Canada can boost its economic productivity and global competitiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">With such a vision, we will see <b>a higher level of collaboration between the federal, provincial and local governments as well as between business and governments.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">And so it should come as no surprise that when it comes to improving and expanding Canada's transportation system and gateways, <b>I believe it's time for action by all of us.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We need action because our infrastructure is not as efficient and secure as it needs to be in this day and age.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We need action because our national transportation network has neither the quality nor capacity to ensure we can capitalize on the economic growth opportunities we see coming in the next five, 10, or 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This network has a major impact on our nation's economy, our nation's productivity and competitiveness, and our nation's reputation abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This network is critical to our nation's economic future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">How efficiently it's working today and what happens to it in the future affects the lives of all Canadians.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It can have a very positive impact – enabling Canada's economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It can also have a negative impact – putting the brakes on Canada's economic growth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The good news is that we're at last seeing a promising degree of consensus about our transportation system – between federal, provincial and local governments and the transportation modes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The recently announced Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor initiative is one example, and CPR plans to be a leading player in making it a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Similar initiatives are being discussed in eastern Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">For example, various levels of government, representatives of the transportation modes – rail, trucking, air, shipping, and the Port of Montreal – and other stakeholders are looking at a St. Lawrence-Great Lakes initiative to develop a common vision and investment plan for this critical North American trade corridor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">CPR plays an important role in this corridor, serving the Port of Montreal gateway and moving imports from Europe destined for the U.S. Midwest across our Montreal-Chicago rail corridor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The great partnership between CPR, led here in Montreal by our General Manager International Claudio Minello, and the Montreal Port Authority, led by the one and only Dominic Taddeo, provides ocean going shippers with a cost effective and reliable service and we're delighted that the Port of Montreal continues to grow.<span> </span>The success of this partnership has resulted in long-term strategic partnerships with both shipping lines and terminal operators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">So, we support this new central gateway initiative and we plan to play a strong role in moving it forward.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">All these discussions and policy pronouncements are positive developments, but it's far too early to declare victory.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>We need – urgently – to turn planning into action.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We need to accelerate work on the major capacity infrastructure projects, making the vision of interconnected supply chains a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We must do this by simplifying and streamlining our "review and approval" processes so that we speed decision making and implementation while at the same time addressing the interests of all stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">I would like to see a day where the Port of Vancouver doesn't have to wait over four years – as they just have – to receive provincial and federal regulatory approval to build Berth 3 at Deltaport.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">I would like to see a day where Quebec's shortline railways don't have to wait two years – as they just have – for the province and the Feds to agree on how to distribute the $100-million railway assistance program that will help Quebec's shortlines modernize their infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">I would like to see a day where it doesn't take half a decade – as it has so far –to discuss a solution to the Windsor-Detroit border crossing crisis.<span> </span>And we still see no agreement on improving this crucially important gateway that supports and enables over 25% of the trade between Canada and the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Speeding the 'time-to-market' for major infrastructure investments should be a priority for government and all of us.<span> </span>They clearly understand how such investments would improve Canada's reputation as a trading partner and, equally important, I think they now understand how the existing slow and cumbersome approval processes is seriously harming our reputation overseas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Now to my last topic:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">While there is slowly emerging good news on infrastructure, sadly there is action quickly occurring on another topic that will – in my view – tarnish our country's reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This story is so amazing I just have to speak out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Bill C-257, which is now in committee, effectively bans all replacement workers from performing the duties of an employee who is on strike or locked out.<span> </span>It would apply to all federally regulated employers in the fields of transportation, telecommunications, banking and emergency services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">If passed, Bill C-257 would create a situation where labour disputes would repeatedly bring the transcontinental flows of freight and the movement of commuter and intercity rail passengers to a halt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The threat to Canada's economy from this Bill is significant.<span> </span>It is not in the nation's social or economic interest.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Unfortunately, and quite amazingly, the Parliamentary Committee responsible has decided to limit hearings on Bill C-257.<span> </span>Neither CP nor CN were granted even one minute to present the extraordinary risks to Canada's economy, yet a number of individual unions were afforded time before the committee!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It is unconscionable that the committee would spend only a few hours considering this dangerous Bill, which will undo the delicate balance previously achieved after three years of tripartite research and analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Ladies and gentlemen, this fatally flawed public policy process mixed with short run political gamesmanship should be a priority concern for every Canadian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">I encourage you all to pay attention to this dangerous bill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Canada's transportation system and gateways are the lifeblood of our economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">For the good of Canadian business and the Canadian economy, we must ensure that the whole transportation supply chain is healthy, robust, modern, integrated and working at maximum efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The demands for infrastructure capital are enormous. Investors will run for the hills if this flawed legislation is rammed through.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">As CP and CN provide the crews for commuter rail, this legislation will also impact hundreds of thousands of commuters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Montreal's AMT has seen ridership levels increase steadily since 1996, going from a two commuter line network to five lines now, serving Greater Montreal.<span> </span>This is a great success story and it's part of Montreal's economic growth story.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">There is huge untapped potential for passenger rail to address our urban mobility issues.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>By increasing our use of rail transportation, we can take more cars and trucks off our increasingly clogged and overused highways and city streets and improve the environment.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This legislation threatens our commuter success story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We have many decisions to make and many options to choose from that will allow us to improve and expand Canada's transportation system and trade gateways.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Whether it's gateway initiatives along the St. Lawrence, in southern Ontario and at Windsor, or at Vancouver; <b>whether it's public-private partnerships;</b> or whether it's collaboration between governments and within the transportation sector itself – we're past the point of discussion and consultation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It's time to turn our vision of "an efficient, integrated transportation and trade gateway system" into a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Canada wants to be competitive, just like many other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Good companies, good people and good governments understand the need to be competitive.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">But <i>great</i> companies, <i>great</i> people and <i>great</i> governments have higher aspirations. </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">They want to have a <i>competitive advantage</i>. <span> </span>That's what I want for my Company – that should be our aspiration for our country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">We can achieve our vision of an efficient, integrated transportation and trade gateway system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>We require wise public policy, collaboration between governments and private companies and, most importantly, we must increase speed of actions.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The 125<sup>th</sup> anniversary of CPR's incorporation this year is a reminder of what we have achieved as a nation through that collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">CPR was born because the government of the day had a vision to unite the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It's hard to imagine CPR would have ever been built if Sir John A. Macdonald had been working on the next two-year plan, or if CPR's founders were thinking no further ahead than the next financial quarter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">They had to make some big bets on the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>They needed bold vision and a plan of execution excellence.</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>And they needed to </b><i><b>collaborate</b></i><b> to realize that vision.</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><b>The Canada we live in today was built on bold visions and good public policy process.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">I would like to see us again have the <b>boldness to say 'this is how we want our transportation system, ports and gateways to be 10, 25, 50 years from now' – and then have the conviction to follow through – with urgency!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The time to make it happen is now. <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your kind attention.<b><span> </span></b></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Je vous remercie de votre attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></span></span></b></font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 35px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </div></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "><br></span></div></span></b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div></div></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></b></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>