12-21-2021, 03:26 PM
(12-21-2021, 11:14 AM)ac3r Wrote:(12-21-2021, 09:29 AM)cherrypark Wrote: I think its worth wondering what hours of the day they are running trains through here and if the yards are used for shunting at night. If the GO train yard at Park St. is an indication they could be appealing to these unrealistic scenarios as more "high impact / risk" options to just block having noise complaints and threat to some continuing operations there?
They do most of the shunting during the day as it's safer to couple trains in daylight, but it's not every day. They then generally pick up the cars at night. The train usually makes its way from this yard to drop them off at the Maple Grove Road yard around midnight each night. Overall it's not a very noisy process...a slight rumbling of the train and maybe a few bangs as the sets of cars couple, but it's quite muffled due to the lower elevation.
Using noise issues as a way to block the project seems unlikely for that reason. The tracks run parallel to King, going as close to 40 meters to single family houses that are along Morgan and Morrison and even that isn't all that noisy apart from the horn when they cross a couple streets. CP tracks also snake their way through lots of residential areas in Cambridge which they run on very often as they need to go through them to bring all the cars to the Galt mainline in the south of the region. They have a huge yard on Samuelson as well, which is dead centre in the middle of a low density residential area. So really, I'm not sure what their objections are truly about.
Fair points from all. Agreed its an obscene reasoning so it must be some other motivation that doesn't have enough material impact for them to challenge on it. At least, I can't earnestly believe the risk profile is that real considering the many other near-railway homes. Unless there is something particular about this site or the parcels that isn't obvious and they are covering their liabilities up front.