Media Advisory - Roncesvalles Residents Upset by Plans to Field Test Cancer Trains in West Toronto

Locals Air Concerns About Pan Am Games Legacy at Public Meeting Tuesday

TORONTO, March 25, 2013 /CNW/ -

Who:	Roncesvalles residents frustrated by the massive expansion of diesel train service along the Georgetown South rail corridor now under construction by Metrolinx.
What:	Roncesvalles Macdonell Residents' Association Monthly Meeting.
Where:	Fern Avenue Public School 128 Fern Avenue
When:	Tuesday, March 26, 2013
	7 p.m.
Why:	The World Health Organization has declared diesel engine exhaust a level one carcinogen. The Union-Pearson Express, a legacy project of the upcoming Pan Am Games, will be using new, imported Tier 4 diesel engines that exist only in prototype and operate nowhere commercially.
	The Georgetown South rail corridor runs from north to east through Roncesvalles and is a defining feature of the neighbourhood. An electric train system now would eliminate the threats posed by an eight-fold increase in diesel train traffic and not require 16 feet tall noise walls running in double columns across large sections of the city.

 

SOURCE: Wabash Building Society

Doug Bennet
Wabash Building Society
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416-460-1477