{"id":35153,"date":"2024-10-03T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=35153"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:36:56","slug":"council-greenlights-new-train-whistle-cessation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/council-greenlights-new-train-whistle-cessation-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Council greenlights new Train Whistle Cessation study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Municipal staff are set to begin work on a new study that could lead to train whistle cessation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Council formally approved a motion from Ward 1 Councillor Ron Weese last week tasking staff to \u201creport back on the processes needed to create a bylaw that will result in the cessation of train whistles\/horns at all level crossings in Aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Weese first gave notice for his motion at the end of August, noting that Metrolinx\u2019s long-standing plan to bring all-day, two-way 15-minute GO Train service to the Barrie Line, which bisects Aurora, will be a game-changer. He also said it was important for Aurora to consider what other municipalities had to do to implement a successful whistle-cessation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStopping train horns requires a by-law and the assumption of risk that occurs if that by-law is passed,\u201d said Weese in communications to Ward 1 residents following the September 23. \u201cCouncil of the day chose not to accept that risk with the existing train traffic. Other municipalities have implemented a similar by-law. This Motion is for staff to re-visit the issue and update us on train safety at level crossings with a comprehensive Report. I have spoken to Council members, and our engineering and legal departments and all agree that safety regulations at level crossings must be known and considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMake no mistake that this Report is focused on making vehicular, pedestrian and cycling safety a priority\u00a0so that our community is safe at all level crossings, regardless of the mode of travel. Aurora deserves this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis report that I ask for will include\u00a0all requirements for safety at each crossing, the upgrade costs projected, and the responsibility for those costs and opportunities for cost-sharing, if any.\u00a0Then a decision by the Council (and others) to remediate the crossings will be made\u00a0before\u00a0considering a by-law to ask that train horns be eliminated. Important to this train horn cessation by-law decision is the risk that the Town will have to assume or share, should an accident at a crossing occur.\u00a0In discussions with our legal department, the evaluation of risk and liability can be assessed and will be presented at the Council so a responsible decision can be made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Municipal staff are set to begin work on a new study that could lead to train whistle cessation. Council formally approved a motion from Ward 1 Councillor Ron Weese last week tasking staff to \u201creport back on the processes needed to create a bylaw that will result in the cessation of train whistles\/horns at all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-98Z","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 14:13:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}