24 March 2009
Shopping Carts, Toys, Garbage Hauled Away
Conservative MP Randy Kamp join volunteers on Saturday
for a
much-needed cleanup along the CP Rail tracks in
Pitt Meadows.
Maple Ridge British Columbia - Canadian Pacific, a
team of volunteers, and Member of Parliament Randy Kamp tidied up train tracks in Pitt Meadows on Saturday.
Shopping carts, toys, bits of bicycles, computer parts, and an assortment of litter were removed around the CP overpass that links
Edith McDermott elementary and Davie Jones elementary schools.
"We are pleased to partner with CP and their employees to clean up this site," said Kamp, the Conservative MP for Pitt
Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission. "We're doing our part to make our community a cleaner and better place. We
hope this sends a strong message to those who think it's OK to use private property as a dumping ground."
CP stopped trains from passing through the stretch of track for just under one hour to let the crew who were decked in gloves and
hardhats complete the cleanup.
Darlene Mercer, who had complained to CP Rail, the City of Pitt Meadows, and Kamp's office about the growing pile of garbage under the
overpass for the past two years, joined five other residents for Saturday's tidy-up task.
"I am really pleased that it got cleaned up," she said.
Mercer hopes the City of Pitt Meadows will have the money to extend a wire cage over the overpass, past the rail
right-of-way and would like CP Rail to raise the chain-link fence around the right-of-way to
prevent people from tossing stuff over.
If they make those changes, we won't have to organize a cleanup again, she added.
Once the work was done, the Pitt Meadows Subway Restaurant gave the crew a lunch.
"Canadian Pacific commends Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission MP Randy Kamp for organizing this community
clean-up," said Larry Metz, manager of terminal operations at CP's Vancouver Intermodal Facility in Pitt Meadows.
"CP employees are committed to improving the communities where they live and work and we're pleased to
help."
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