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July 7, 2009, 2 e-mails


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F. D. wrote:

Attached is a flyer from the Friends of Brock Avenue.

K. P. wrote:

Dear Parent Friends and Friends of Parents & Kids,

I don't know if you have been following the Metrolinx developments. Perhaps you've seen Keith in the news a few times lately! If you haven't, you should be aware that Metrolinx, an agency of the Ontario government, is proposing to increase diesel rail traffic along the tracks which crisscross west Toronto from the current 50 a day to up to 500 a day. That's a diesel train running every 3 minutes, for 19 hours a day, through the most densely populated urban corridor in Canada.

Over a quarter of a million people live along the corridor and there are 76 schools and 96 daycare centers with in 700 metres of the tracks. The toxic contaminants contained in diesel pollution will travel far beyond these neighbourhoods; the smallest particles can travel up to 200 km from source. The toxins spewed by diesel trains are known to cause asthma, cancers, reproductive and developmental disorders, and a host of other deadly diseases. Young children are most at risk. I am involved with the Clean Train Coalition, a group of concerned citizens that is demanding that any increased rail traffic through our city be comprised entirely of zero emission electric trains.

Come out to the Clean Air for Little Lungs stroller parade at Queen’s Park on July 20th, from 10:00-11:00AM . If you can't make it, please send a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty urging him to electrify this proposed expansion immediately.

On July 30, Metrolinx’s environmental assessment goes to the Ontario Minister of the Environment, who will either approve of the plan as is, or send Metrolinx back to the drawing board. By the end of August, the decision will have been made, and the course of our childrens' health will be charted. Please, if you haven't already done so, go to to find out how to comment on the Environmental Assessment, and register your disaproval.

I don't ever want to have to explain to my son why his health, and the health of thousands of Toronto's children was disregarded in favour of cost-cutting and political expediency. Please forward this on to all of your contacts - especially those with little ones.

I hope to see you and your kids/ kid friends on July 20th. We need to come out in large numbers to show Dalton McGuinty that voters will go to great lengths to protect children’s health!


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