Quote:In the tribunal report, representatives for CNR said “a derailment could lead to progressive collapse of the planned towers in the proposal akin to the 911 terrorist attack in New York.”
Oh give me a break. That just sounds stupid. This is barely a shunting yard or anything, what could cause a catastrophic derailment that could lead to a 9/11 style disaster? This yard is only used to store extra "junk" cars that are eventually coupled to the CP trains that carry autoracks from the Toyota plant. Barely anything moves in and out of that yard besides empty grainers and hoppers. Anytime there IS movement, it's very slow and done by one or two low powdered switcher locomotives.
If CN, CP and GO Transit can run trains through much denser areas throughout the GTA then I don't see the issue.
Edit: Same goes for their objection to The Metz. CP almost never uses that spur because all it does is connect to the CN Guelph Subdivision and while GEXR/CN owns most of the tracks in the yard, they don't really use it for car storage since it's CP that owns the spur that connects the yard to the CN tracks. The tracks are rusty most of the time.