Dear Editor:
Earlier this year at the United Boulevard Extension meetings, attendees heartily voiced the opinion that the New Westminster municipality should do something about the noise resulting from trains passing through the Sapperton and McBryde areas to the railway yards in New Westminster.
The time has now come when something can and should be done: Citizens need to insist that the new mayor and New Westminster council members, when appointed, must introduce a bylaw similar to that passed by the District of Coquitlam Bylaw No. 1421 of 1984.
The bylaw refers to the Railway Act being Chapter R-2 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, as amended, Section 248.
After several "whereases," the Coquitlam bylaw 1421 prohibits the "sounding of train whistles/hoot-ing."
The proviso is that:
? There shall be flashing red lights
? There shall be safety booms at crossings.
Edwin F. Grobler, New Westminster
