e-1224 (Rail transportation)
- Keywords
- Level crossings
- Rail transport safety
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the Minister of Transport
- Across Canada, people’s movements are constrained by railways in inhabited areas. The lack of safe crossings is a major barrier to residents’ mobility, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists.
- The rail companies, such as Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN), can block the construction of safe crossings;
- In Montreal, CP has repeatedly refused to allow the crossings proposed by the City of Montreal. The City of Montreal entered into mediation with the Canadian Transportation Agency, but this effort failed;
- CN also makes moving between different neighbourhoods complicated, especially in Pointe St. Charles, where overpasses are too few and unsafe to promote active transportation; and
- In Toronto, in British Columbia and elsewhere in the country, accessibility is seriously limited by railways and a lack of safe crossings for cyclists and pedestrians. For example, the closure of a bridge over the Kicking Horse River is hurting the local whitewater rafting industry.
- Open for signature
- August 16, 2017, at 1:48 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- December 14, 2017, at 1:48 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Hélène Laverdière
(Laurier—Sainte-Marie)
March 20, 2018 (Petition No. 421-02165) - Government response tabled
- May 3, 2018