DISTRICT OF COQUITLAM
BY-LAW NO. 1421, 1984

A By-Law to prohibit the
Sounding of Train Whistles
in certain neighbourhoods of the

District of Coquitlam

WHEREAS the Railway Act being. Chapter R-2 of
the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, as amended,
Section 248, provides as follows:

"248. (1) When any train is @pproaching a highway
crossing at rail level the engine whistle shall be
seunded at least eighty rods before reaching such cross-
ing, and the bell shall be rung continuously from the
time of the sounding of the whistle until the engine
has crossed such highway.

(2) Where a by-law of an urban municipality
prohibits such sounding of the whistle or ringing of
the bell in respect of any such crossing or crossings
within. the limits of the municipality, the by-law shall,
if approved by an order of the Commission, to the extent
of the prohibition relieve the company and its employees
from the duty imposed by this saction.

(3) In subsection (2) the expression "urban
municipality® means ’

(a) a citys

(b) a town; or

(c) any other municipality that contains
@ thickly. populated area and that the Commission, on
the application of such municipality, declaras to be
an urban municipality within the meaning of that sub-
saction.”® ,

AND WHEREAS tho whistling of the locomotives
on the Canadian Pacific Railway track, whilst traversing
the District of Coquitlam, disturbs the heace andaquiet
of the residents of the District of Coquitlam, both
by day and at night, in the neighbourhood of the at-
grade highway railway crossings on Westwood Street and
Pitt River Road, in the District of Coquitlam;

AND WHEREAS the necessary protection devices
as raquired by the Canadian Transport Commission have
been erected on both sides of each level highway railway
Groasing on Westwood Street and Pitt River Road;