Rail safety is a shared responsibility

In 2018, an expert panel recommended that Transport Canada develop a comprehensive national initiative to improve grade crossing safety. It's an expensive effort that can cost $20-million to build a simple grade separation in a rural area, and more than $60-million in an urban setting.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau is being asked to develop a national strategy to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries that result from trespassing on railway property.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Randy Goulden and Sean Finn

September 26, 2019

Canada grew up along the railroad. Those who work in the railway industry are immensely proud of that legacy, and their contribution to the economic development of hundreds of towns and cities, large and small, across this count...

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