- Office of the Mayor — xe ciry oF port coaur.am
2272 McAllister Avenue,
Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 248 ; Phone: 941-5411
October 2lst, 1982

Mr. 3. O'Hara, .

Committee Secretary,
Railway Transport Committee,

Canadian Transport Commission,
15 Eddy Street,

Hull, Quebec.
Dear Sir:

Res "Railroad Transport of Dangerous Goods
in the Greater Vancouver Region"

The above noted Report has been reviewed by
members of the Municipal Council of The Corporation of the

City of Port Coquitlam and by various City staff members.
The comments made in this letter are fully endorsed by the

Council.

Coquitlam Yard

Qur. concern is, of course, with that portion of

the Report referring to C.P. Rail's Coquitlam Yard and. the
various recommendations made in the Report that affect the
storage and movement of -dangerous commodities on-C.P.
Reail's track in the vicinity of our City. Quite frankly,

some of the proposals are alarming.

As the Report states, Coquitlam Yard serves as
the westerly terminus of the transcontinental C.P. Route
and handles about 14,500 carloads of hazardous materials
annually. This means that, every day an average of about
40 carloads of hazardous materials are in transit through
the Coquitlam yards and when this is added to the three
day supply of petroleum gas_stored in the Coquitlam Yard
one begins to realize the magnitude of the problem.

Remote Holding Compound

As is stated in the second Paragraph of Section

3+2 of the Report we did believe that developments in
connection with establishing a. remote holding compound
were proceeding and the Report's recommendation that

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