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Chairperson of the Grandview Residents Association, Ricardo Mashregi, and president of the Spring Farm Ratepayers Association Pam Taraday-Levy stand in front of the train tracks at Yonge Street in Thornhill. Freight train traffic through York Region could double in the coming years if it is diverted from the Milton/Mississauga line.
Citizens say no to doubling of train traffic through city TIM KELLY tkelly@yrmg.com The prospect of twice as many freight trains rolling through south York Region has local taxpayer groups reaching out to all levels of government to put the
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brakes on. Ricardo Mashregi, a Thornhill resident who speaks for a number of local ratepayers groups opposed to any dramatic increase in local freight-train traffic, has been meeting with regional MPs, MPPs and municipal politicians to make
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his opposition known. Concerns have been raised because of a Metrolinx mandate to push public transit heavily throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in the next decade as the area dramatically increases in population.
In simple terms, Mashregi said, Metrolinx has bought up about 80 per cent of the GTHA’s rail lines for its transit expansion but does not own the two freight lines, CN, which runs through York Region,
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