Gr eater Vance ouver Regional Distr ict Development Services Deparment
4330 Kingsway, Bumaby, British Columbia, Canada V5H 4G8 Telephone (604) 432-6350

TO: Chairman and Members
Policy Coordinating Committee

FROM: SubCommittee on Dangerous Goods by Rail
(Mayor T, Baker, Chairman, Mayor M. Baker,
Mayor E, Burnett, Alderman M. Ford,
Mayor L. Traboulay]

DATE: October 24, 1985

RE: PROPOSED DRAFT RESPONSE TO THE CANADIAN TRANSPORT COMMISSTON'S
RAILWAY TRANSPORT COMMITTEE'S (CTC/RTC) DECISION ON THE MATTER
OF DANGEROUS GOODS BY RAIL ON VANCOUVER AND VICTORIA ;
WATERFRONT .

Your SubCommittee has met on three occasions since the proposed
decision was published by the CTC/RTC on September 30, 1985, After

We believe that this draft response, when approved, should be sent to
the CTC/RTC as an expression of our collective Views.

Further, copies of the response. should be sent to each municipal
Council with the request that they endorse the response and so advica

the CTC/RTC.

Recommendations

1. That the draft response dated October 28, 1985 be approved and
become the response of the Policy Coordinating Committee,

2. That copies of the response be sent to the CTC/rTC

3. That copies of the response be sent to municipal Councils with the

4. That the SubComnittee report further on this matter and on the
possibility for developing a long range plan for the movement of

dangerous goods by rail.

APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE POLICY COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON
OCTOBER 30, 1985 202