Mayors and councils representing Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast have all shown their support for increased passenger rail service on the Island.
Members attending the annual conference of the Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities, unanimously endorsed a resolution that would see a main rail terminus established in Nanaimo with two trains heading south each morning. The trains would get commuters to work in Victoria and in communities along the way and would provide local passenger and tourism services.
Negotiations are underway with rail partners and government with the hope that by spring 2011 trains will be motoring south.
Hello Hard working folks!
Thank you for your passion and participation in this project!
It has come to my attention that single glazed windows are planned for the train station to preserve the heritage character.
I will refrain from a lengthy email, though i am happy to expound at length if requested or needed.
I am addressing this in the spirit of the future, sustainability, climate change and the fantastic opportunity we have in lowering our transportation footprint and increasing tourism dollars with our rail system.
It also bears mentioning that many aspects will not be heritage: the lack of lead based-cod liver oil, linseed oil paints, lead plumbing and flashings, asphalt based adhesives, peel and stick strips around the windows, no weather strip, no vapor barrier,no insulation to speak of, wood, then coal, then oil heat, it is likely that no power tools were used to build the train station and the list goes on.
The “heritage look” has it’s place but it must be secondary to our responsibility to sustainability, our environment and the future of our children.
Please apply “LEED” building principles to this restoration project wherever physically possible.
A a donor to this project, I am sure most donors and fundraisers would be uncomfortable that their hard work and money was leaking out single paned “heritage” windows causing more climate change.
I look forward to your response.