Every inch of that rail yard will be a superfund site. Can you imagine all the stuff that’s been spilled over the last 150 odd years? Cleaning all that up is going to be a way bigger nightmare than the city thinks.
Couple that with the projected cost (almost certainly an underestimate), the fact that no government will want to pay for it, and that this country is basically two railroads in a trench coat.
No doubt cleaning up a rail yard is a huge and expensive undertaking. However, it has been done successfully in Winnipeg before, albeit on a smaller scale. The Forks used to be a rail yard before being redeveloped into what it is now.
Every inch of that rail yard will be a superfund site. Can you imagine all the stuff that’s been spilled over the last 150 odd years? Cleaning all that up is going to be a way bigger nightmare than the city thinks.
Couple that with the projected cost (almost certainly an underestimate), the fact that no government will want to pay for it, and that this country is basically two railroads in a trench coat.
No doubt cleaning up a rail yard is a huge and expensive undertaking. However, it has been done successfully in Winnipeg before, albeit on a smaller scale. The Forks used to be a rail yard before being redeveloped into what it is now.