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By Veronica Beltran

CN Rail invests

CN announces $445 million investment in B.C.

Jun 29, 2020 | 10:43 AM

VANCOUVER—CN Rail announced that it is investing $445 million across B.C this year to support demand and enable supply chains.

The investments will include expansion projects that will add track in yards to help handle growing traffic, new sidings as well as continued investments in multi-year initiatives to increase capacity at the Port of Vancouver and at the Port of Prince Rupert. A maintenance program will focus on the replacement of rail and ties and maintenance work on level crossings.

“Safety is a core value at CN and by investing in the maintenance and expansion of our track and capacity, we are providing customers with a safe and reliable solution at a time when fluid supply chains are more critical than ever.”—James Thompson, Vice-President, Western Region at CN

The expansion project includes, the construction of around 3.5 miles of double track between Vancouver and Edmonton; building new sidings on the Edmonton to Prince Rupert corridor to increase capacity for growing demand; continued investments to continue multi-year infrastructure projects that will increase capacity at the Vancouver and Prince Rupert ports. The maintenance program will replace more than 100 miles of rail, install over 209,000 new railroad ties and install over 46,000 concrete ties, among other things.

A release by CN says that these investments will create higher capacity, which supports reductions in its customer’s transportation supply chain green house gas emissions, by encouraging the use of rail for long haul needs. “This reduces emissions, traffic congestion, accidents and burdens on public transportation infrastructure as one freight train can replace over 300 trucks from road,” read the release.

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