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LETTER: Move to electric railroad, instead

In reaction to upset about CP Rail’s expansion plans in Pitt Meadows, this reader has a suggestion
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Dear Editor,

Just reading about CPR’s plans for increasing pollution in our neck of the woods.

We do need trade, it’s what keeps us going.

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I think the best way to move forward is to electrify all railroads from Hope west, B.C. border north, and westend of West Vancouver southeast.

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Very efficient electric railroad systems have been in place for decades.

It’s not as if the wheel has to be reinvented.

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Chris Winchester, Maple Ridge

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