Councillor Bob Meachen for City of Pitt Meadows BC

Join Mayor and Council virtually at the EPC meeting on Feb 9 at 7pm to hear the recommendations of the RCMP Building Feasibility Study, which examined various s...ites and whether to renovate or build a new office to accommodate a future independent Pitt Meadows RCMP detachment. Learn more at pittmeadows.ca/policereview and visit pittmeadows.ca/councilmeetings for ways to participate.

Why Council Cannot Just Say No to All Canadian Pacific (CP) Rail Projects? Mayor’s Statement January 26, 2021 Some have asked, why Council doesn’t just sa...y no to all the CP Rail projects. The answer to the question is anything but simple nor easy. It is important to have six years of complex context. The CP Vancouver Intermodal Facility (VIF) in Pitt Meadows has been in existence since the early 1990swith two main lines running through our City. This is dissimilar to the Milton, Ontario scenario where CN wanted to build a brand new intermodal yard). On Thursday January 21, 2021, the Government of Canada approved the CN intermodal yard citing, in part, trade and transportation, while removing trucks from the roadways. As is evident, there are strong influential forces at play when it comes to the transportation of goods that each and every one of us rely on every day. Currently, there are approximately 45 trains per day in Pitt Meadows. It is estimated that given the demand for national and international trade/transportation of goods, plus one million more residents coming to Metro Vancouver over the next 20 years, train traffic will increase to 65 trains/day or more per day and trains will be longer. There are currently 1,000 semi trucks entering the VIF near the Pitt River Bridge/Kennedy Road, daily. The VIF in Pitt Meadows is a sister yard to the one in Port Coquitlam that handles different commodities. Initial discussions began in 2014 under the previous Council and involved the provincial and federal governments wanting to work with the City on infrastructure projects such as the underpass at Harris Road Read the full statement: pittmeadows.ca/news.

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Details on the proposed CP Rail Terminal extension and points of contact. https://www.pittmeadows.ca//opposition-proposed-cp-logisti