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Author:  jpward6 [ Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:07 pm ]
Post subject:  CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
News Release -

The Town of Milton and Halton Region have learned that the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) intends to announce that it will move forward with a proposal to build an intermodal facility in Milton. The company plans to make the announcement at a Milton Chamber of Commerce event on Thursday, March 19. CN will then proceed with a Federal Environmental Assessment for the proposed facility and will file an official project description on Monday, March 23.

The proposed intermodal terminal would be built on a 400-acre plot of CN-owned land, located between Britannia Road and Lower Base Line. It would be designed to transfer cargo containers between rail cars and trucks to move goods eastward cross the Greater Toronto Area and throughout North America. The facility would be approximately 2900 metres in length and have the capacity to handle four trains per day. Once completed, the terminal would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

CN has not provided the Town or Halton Region with a formal site plan for the project or other important details, but both governments have serious concerns that this location is not appropriate.

“As it stands, CN’s proposal is contrary to our vision for the Town of Milton,” said Mayor Gordon Krantz. “Their plan lacks detail and does not recognize the needs of our residents or that the integrity of our community is protected.”

Town and Regional staff noted that the expanded railway operations and services proposed by CN are not consistent with existing zoning or the Official Plans of the Town and the Region, and could have significant environmental, transportation, social and land use planning implications.

The Town and the Region have made CN aware of these issues, but the company still plans to proceed with the project, claiming that neither Milton, the Region, nor the provincial or federal government, has a say in determining whether the project moves forward.

Town and Regional staff will work to ensure that the proposed facility follows a full regulatory approval process.

This proposal marks CN’s second attempt to establish an intermodal facility in Milton. In 2001, CN proposed a similar project. Both the Town and the Region identified several major issues with that plan, including an increase in traffic, noise and air pollution, a loss of agricultural land, and negative impacts on wildlife, habitats and other environmental resources. The proposal also prompted outcry from members of the community and opposition groups before it was withdrawn The present project is also at odds with CN’s commitment to Regional Council that it would not build the intermodal facility, and would pursue a rail-served industrial development on the lands instead.

View the article at:

http://milton.ca/en/news/index.aspx?cat ... c5c4a35ee6


Please discuss and share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas.
Author:  Wyl [ Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
[quote="jpward6"The facility would be approximately 2900 metres in length and have the capacity to handle four trains per day. Once completed, the terminal would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.[/quote]


3KM seems a little far fetched does it not?

If they do put that facility in, we are well on our way to becoming Brampton 2.0
Author:  rrknight [ Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:30 pm ]
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This is horrible! What the fack with these people at CN rail!
Author:  Greenjp [ Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
Time capsule.......Looks like it's back, beware Hawthorne South

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6331

Search "Intermodal" to see more talk on this from the past.
Author:  thenay [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
..." located between Britannia Road and Lower Base Line"..

That's a big area. I'm assuming it won't be going through the dump so it would be east of hwy 25 then?
I didn't know that area is owned by CN Rail or it was industrial. I figured more cookie cutter homes will be built there eventually.
Author:  Kapi [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
:? please do keep us posted... a lot of new housing going up right in that area... kind of a bummer to hear about this
Author:  hvanseg [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
thenay wrote:
..." located between Britannia Road and Lower Base Line"..

That's a big area. I'm assuming it won't be going through the dump so it would be east of hwy 25 then?
I didn't know that area is owned by CN Rail or it was industrial. I figured more cookie cutter homes will be built there eventually.


It will be between 1st line and Tremaine, where the current CN Rail tracks are.
Author:  KPR [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
This facility would be a debacle for Milton. HWY 25 has been widened to accommodate the increased commuter traffic, but if this facility goes through, it will be insufficient to handle the constant stream of trucks clogging up the lanes.

Anyone who bought a home in the new development near britannia and bronte is going to be pretty unhappy...not sure Mattamy is going to want to keep increasing those home prices for that new area anymore.
Author:  buka [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
I can see it now: trucks driving on Ontario St. To the 401.
Author:  Draven [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
Toronto Star:
"Milton Mayor Gordon Krantz says his town has been "blindsided" by a CN plan to have a facility between Britannia Rd. and Lower Base Line that would bring 1,500 trucks and four additional trains into Milton every day."

Thats a lot of added traffic/congestion on all major roads in milton (especially bronte, ontario-25, britannia, derry, jsp) as the trucks come in and out of milton to deliver to/from the gta
Author:  Kevin&Amanda [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
Just what Milton traffic needs: big slow heavy trucks mixed in with all the corollas. I'm getting a pilot's license...
Author:  Fred D [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:20 am ]
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Thanks for the post, John. Curious to hear your thoughts and ideas as well.
Author:  newermiltonian [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
Looks like we made the star's front page.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/03 ... entre.html Residents ‘will be lying down on the tracks’ to prevent project that messes with town’s growth plan, say leaders.
Author:  Proudcanadian [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
buka wrote:
I can see it now: trucks driving on Ontario St. To the 401.


That is of course until the new tremaine Rd 401 access is built then the big trucks will passing right by the MEV or should I say the velodrome because I don't think Laurier would want to be putting a satellite campus anywhere close to the proposed cn rail yard. Is there a petition started yet?
Author:  DRiFT_645 [ Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: CN to Announce Plans for Intermodal Facility in Milton
NIMBY'ism sure. But it just doesn't make sense to place such a facility near residential when we have so much industrial area this would be more applicable being near. The roads can't handle the volume of trucks this will generate. Tremaine should be a 6 lane road if that's to be the main access point.
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