As promised here’s the rundown. Short Version: Nothing is changing. Trains will stay. They will continue to be noisy. Maple will still be built as planned. Council would like to do something about the train noise and vibration, but they have no authority over CN. Long Version: As I mentioned earlier I thought the meeting …
Category Archives: City of Edmonton
Meeting with Sohi update
Had an interesting meeting with Councilor Sohi and city planning and bylaw officials. Learned some stuff I didn’t know and hopefully was able to provide them with some new information. Going to let things percolate for a couple days and then I’ll post a summary of the meeting I do have a question for any …
The 12:14am train last night — you suck!
Worst train I’ve ever felt came through last night. The shaking was crazy — if I’d been on the edge of the bed I’d probably have fallen off! Of course it did wake the kids, which is always fun in the middle of the night. Don’t know if the driver was just going too fast, …
Councilor Sohi – Trains in Tamarack Update
Councilor Sohi phoned me today. The call was appreciated and he explained the delay in that he was waiting for information from the Transportation group, which he has still not yet received. So, he didn’t have a lot of information but he said he would contact me when he had more. There are some things …
Councilor Sohi and Thiele update
When I contacted Councilor Sohi to complain about his voting in favor of the new Maple subdivision development beside Tamarack in Edmonton, Alberta, his assistant told me he had never received any previous correspondance from my wife or I (I was annoyed by his vote because I had hoped he would have at least brought …
CN Rail… thanks for the wake up call
Train just rumbled through a couple minutes ago, waking everyone — shook the house enough to pop my son’s door open! That hasn’t happened in a bit, hope we’re not entering another busy season for the train here in Tamarack subdivision.
City of Edmonton Meeting Minutes – Maple Subdivision
A couple weeks ago (as I noted on this blog) the City of Edmonton met to discuss building another subdivision (Maple) beside the CN Rail tracks (across from Tamarack). During that meeting no serious discussion of the negative impact occurred and the motion passed all three readings in about fifteen minutes. I contacted several councilors, …
Wikipedia question
There’s a Tamarack article over at wikipedia and unfortunately someone keeps on removing the reference to the CN Train that I added. Basically the following line gets removed usually a few days after I add: CN Rail operates a train line through the subdivision. There are no plans to discontinue the CN Rail line. Does …
Disapointed with Edmonton City Council
This is the e-mail I just sent to my ward councilor Amarjeet Sohi. I think it summarizes well my disappointment over Edmonton City Council deciding to go ahead with building the Maple subdivision, which will be another noise and vibration-plagued subdivision along a busy CN Rail line. There was no discussion of noise and vibration …
Teach me, it will!
So yesterday I was thinking that I hadn’t heard any trains for a few days, hadn’t felt the house shake either. And of course I didn’t knock on wood or anything. Last night was brutal, the train that woke me sometime around 4:00 am was a screeching, noisy beast. And today there’s been three memorable …