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[quote user="enr2099"][quote user="futuremodal"] <p>Question: Does the BCRail/CN connection itself have a CN/CP or CN/BNSF connection further down the line? What I'm wondering is if it would have been possible to build a parallel line alongside the CN ROW (perhaps using the Canadian version of eminent domain) between the BCRail end of track and either CP or BNSF? That alone would've been more practical than an expensive connection through the heart of urbania.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>CN's North Shore Industrial Line connects to the New Westminster Sub via a 2 mile long tunnel that runs under downtown Burnaby, a second tunnel and a bridge would have to be built which would cost a lot of money, the Province, BNSF, and CPR would never put that amount of money up. There is a CPR connection further south, and the New Westminster Sub is also used by BNSF to Vancouver. It would not be possible to build a line next to the ROW. The whole line runs through very densly populated areas. </p><p>[quote]</p><p>I also have heard about plans for a new highway bridge between North Vancouver and Vancouver/Burnaby. Would there have been room along a highway ROW for a rail connection?</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>The bridge would have to be further east of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and CN's Second Narrows bridge. Any rail connection would have to use CN's Seymour Branch and the North Shore Industrial Line to get to the BCR because there is NO land to build a seperate connection. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Well, there's always the nuclear option - confistication (with due compensation, of course) of that particular CN ROW via whatever form of Canadian eminent domain there might be. It's nasty and confrontational, but if CP or OmniTRAX had managed to outbid CN for BCRail, they'd need some way to connect the two properties. So it stands to reason an OA BCRail would need the same connectivity.</p><p>[quote]</p><p>The Province was trying to get rid of the railway not spend millions on an unnecessary rail connection when one already exists that requires no money. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>That's what we all figured was really the primary desire of the *sale*.</p>
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