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Friends of Rails to Trails: E&N Rail Line Should Be an Active Transportation Corridor
- David Slade, vice-president of Friends of Rails to Trails Vancouver Island, suggests converting the E&N rail line into a multi-use trail network to save costs and boost tourism, citing high economic benefits from similar trails like the Allegheny Passage.
- The estimated cost to convert the E&N line is about $1.2 million for 27 kilometres, but introducing rail alongside trails could be 10 to 100 times more expensive, according to Slade.
- A report from Stantec Consulting indicates high fixed costs to reinstate rail service, along with potential soil remediation costs between $76 million and $225 million if the rail line is decommissioned.
- Slade disagrees with Stantec's soil remediation assumptions, stating that costs could be minimal and trails could avoid complications of reserve lands, unlike rail service.
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