100 Mile mayor part of group calling for publicly owned rail corridor between Prince George and Vancouver

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Pinkney was joined by BC Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote in calling on the provincial and federal governments to invest in a publicly owned rail corridor to move people and goods between the north, the Interior and the coast. 

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“This is do or die for our industrial parks,” Pinkney says. “We can’t make affordable products if we’re shipping by trucks and we, as a province, cannot continue to ship by trucks. Our roads can’t handle the weight of them, the safety (risks) that our people are in every day because of the additional trucks on the road. 

“Just like Ashcroft does to Vancouver, 100 Mile House could offer an inland port to Squamish. That would free up very, very needed land down there and make our economy better in small towns.” 

Valeriote says while the BC Greens and their partners applauded the B.C. government for committing to keep the rail corridor in public ownership, more must be done. 

“The Alliance is still waiting for a formal response from the province to their request for $600,000 in funding for an engineering assessment, economic study and operations funding,” Valeriote states. “The province also needs to finalize a governance structure or operator agreement, to get trains running again.” 

Pinkney and Valeriote were also joined by Prince George Councillor Trudy Klassen, Lheidli T’enneh Councillor Clayton Pountney, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country MP Patrick Weiler and other municipal leaders.