<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div>Thanks Lulu for your below email.<div><br></div><div>Greners hopefully will be interested in the actual severity of early morning noise and diesel exhaust pollution. Related quotes from <a href="http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630379--go-trains-coming-to-kitchener-dec-19">http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630379--go-trains-coming-to-kitchener-dec-19</a>:</div><div>1. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">Neighbours were startled to learn that <b>trains will ... idle there while warming up.</b></span>"</div><div><div><div>2. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">Provincial commuter trains will leave Kitchener’s Via Rail station on Victoria St. N. at <b>5:52 a.m</b>. and ... .</span>" (which means idling <b>noise</b>/'toxic diesel exhaust' pollution starts when in the morning -- 4:00 a.m. or earlier?)</div><div><br></div><div>For affected Kitchener residents, the sooner that idling trains are located in a non-problematic(??) location near Baden -- by Alpine Plant Foods -- the better. However, if this location is not sufficiently appropriately-located, then 4 sequently idling GO-Trains could lead to students arriving at WODSS -- and the new public school -- amidst smelly and toxic diesel fumes. And Baden subdivision residents could have diesel exhaust with their morning coffee.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Perhaps the next 2 engines that GO-Train purchases could be diesel/battery hybrids with cleaner-burning diesel engines that could be warmed up -- if necessary -- at appropriate track stretches while moving along the route. (See <a href="http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featureelectric-diesel-or-hybrid-the-great-railcar-debate/)">http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featureelectric-diesel-or-hybrid-the-great-railcar-debate/)</a></b></div><div><br></div><div>(I live in Wilmot Township & was a long-serving member of their Environmental Advisory Committee with a special interest in air pollution such as the risk of the very dangerous anhydrous ammonia escaping from fertilizer manufacturer Alpine Plant Food which is upwind from WODSS and Baden -- as the new GO-Train "idling" yard might be.)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Robert M</div><div><br></div><div>On 25-Nov-11, at 12:50 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div>Go trains to and from Toronto start in Kitchener on December 19th.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630379--go-trains-coming-to-kitchener-dec-19">http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630379--go-trains-coming-to-kitchener-dec-19</a></div><div><br></div><div>Lulu :0)</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>All mailing list<br><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca">All@gren.ca</a><br>http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>