Page 2, Whitby Free Preas, Wednesday, September 20, 1995 Resident bothered by, By 1<1k. Kowalsk Idling train engines are giving a west Whitby resident grief and thore may be littie she can do about it. Edie Gomille is fed up with engines bei.ug left running - often for hours on end and usuafly unattended - on the Canadian Pacfifc railway tracks near lier Cochirane Street home. Gomnille, who lives about 100 foot away from a siding area where trains park wile awaiting freali crews, lias had to contend with diesel fumes, noise and vibrations strong enough to rattie objects on lier shelves. Although she has complained to SU(tra Cuts Quality Haircare Affordable Prices HAIRCUT After 2:3Opm $O SPECIAL until 7:OOpm PERMS $25.00 and up - COLOURS $25.0. SPIRAL PERMS $55.00 and up 1 MON. TO FRI. 9:00- 7:00 - SATURDAY 9:00 - 6:00 209 DUDSS.EWIB 0TF1ý (IN THE WHITBY CORPORATE CENTRE)> WY2]UDS (ACROSS FROM POST OFFICE> f.ii CHNA 436-1800 "Your Sign of Distinctïin 1 7-771- CP since the problem became mere frequent four yoars ago, the company only resiponds te specific incidents, she said. No permanent solution lias been proposed by CP and the railway rejects lier suggeston cf meving the engines a littie furtlier up the tracks. "The first time Icailed was in the falof '91-wlen a train sat eut there with the engine going for eight heurs," said Gomnille. 71 assumed thora was a problem, but I feund eut that it was unmanned and just waiting fer a crew," she saiîd. "I can accept it if it's a legitimate stop for a littie while, but this is more than just an inclbnvenience." Gomille, wholias lived near the Cochrane Street bridge since 1973, dees net ebject te noise produced by trains travelling aleng the tracks in the normal course ef the day. Rather, it's the engines left running "fer heurs and1 makes i er angry. "On some oçcaE definitely shaken tl thinga on the shelves v said. When Gomille compl she is told that the engines wiil be meved a new crew reports for sometimes insuit is injury, she noted. "Apersen at the Oshu said the railroad was and why did (Town) col them te, build lieuses se Maid. "Another time tlieyE toc difficult te restart tI turned the angines off." For whatever ret problem lias become i over the past year, claimed, and on the m May 6-7 she reached th, peint. "A train was left ri idling9 train heurs" that 'about 26 hours," she said. "It started, early Saturday siens itfs morning and puiled out at 10:50 Lho house, a.m. Sunday." vobble," she But before the train left, Gomille made several angiy oels te not Iainsto CP, only CP staff in Oshawa and Eoffending Belleville, but alse to the Ontario as soon as a Mlnistry of Environment and duty. But Energys 24-heur spiil reporting added te hotlhx,ý. "Wh'.4t concerns me is that while awa station the train is ivaiing te be thora flrst re-crewed, itfs sitting there for mundil allow heurs poiluting the air and close?" she disturbing the peace." Ministry official Sylvia Holloway said it was told The Free Press she contacted hem if tliey CP police after Gomille's oeil and ,et was assurod that the next ýason, the available crew would move the moe acute train. rGomillo Holloway said noise is3 veekend cf cenzfidered te be pollution under Le 'breaking the Environmental Protection Act, but she, did net know if the act unning for applies in this particular case. Gomille said the situation -improved "a little" after the May ~ E D!ncident. However' "it's getten Frustrated with Clys response te lier cemplaints, Gomille intends te pursue the matter with such local politicians as Ontario riding MP Dan McTeague and Whitby ceundllor Judi Longfield. CP public relations officer Paul Thurston said the company could find ne record of the May 6--1 ICVAC, incident. CVAC, "It's net te sy it didn't happen, -aped, but we couldn'lt find an incident cf ie Poland a train waiing 24 heurs," said Thursten.* eng9ines "Our focus is to keep the siding clear. Thora may have been some incident and if it did happen, it was an isolated occurrence." Thurston said train engines are left idling until a new crew takes over. "The object is to get it out as quickly as we can," ho said. Aithougli thora is "Borne difficulty" in restarting an engine, Thurston admitted it is not a "major problom." However, "it'snot a practico to shut, it down," ho stressed. Thurston rejocted Gomille's suggestion that the trains be rnoved further to, the west. 'That would involvo other residents. It would still inconvenionce somobody." Rob Lyon of the York-Durham office of the Ontario Mnistxy of Environment and Energy said bis ministry is hamstnmg by foderal regulations goverming railways. "As long as what they'ro deing is related to transportation. of goods, they're given more riglits," said Lyon. "We've asked CP and ON not te park trains on the west aide of Brock Street, but itfs their view. that this is within their right to transport goods." Lyon said the Ontario governmont is prevented from charging theo Canadian gevemnment with violating provincial'law, but Ottawa can charge a province with violating federal regulations. "We can only charge individuals ini the federal gevernmen, but tliey can charge us," ho said. Lyon added that i five years, bis office lias only received two complaints of this nature. Theft at theatre Audio equipment valued at more than $2,700 was stolen from the Whitby Oourthouse Theatre after a break-in last week. Police say someone forced a window on the southwest c'orner of the Centennial Building to get in somotime between 6 p.m. Tliursday and 7 a.m. Friday. The culprit(s) went- througli the building, police say, before deciding to, steal, equipment from tho theatre. Items, taken include a Yamaha mixing console, effects processor and two speakers, a JVC compact disc: player and Sony tapodeck and headphones. Group and the Red, Blue and White Kuiglits, are expected to take part in the Hlighway 401 ride. About 200 motorcyclias are scheauled to go up H-ighway 12 i Whitby to the municipal building on Rossland Road, where there will be brief ceremonies before the group rejoins the 401 ride. The ride, which ends at Fort Henry in Klngston at 5:15 p.m., raied $80,000 the past two years. The minimum pledge is $50. RCALBIDAR$ 2840 2170 2953 0004 0157 *0213 0265 POOL! PRIVACY! 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