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NEWS UPDATE – Fundraising Request! South Fraser Community Rail Society - Hydrogen iLink Passenger Rail, Scott Rd. SkyTrain to Chilliwack” #ConnectTheValley. Your South Fraser Community Rail Society has been hard at work, please check out this video, that fully explains what this proposal is all about!
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 The route of the old interurban line between Vancouver and Chilliwack. South Fraser Community Rail hopes to see a passenger line revived between Surrey and Chilliwack. Map courtesy of South Fraser Community Rail & The Tyee Bill Vander Zalm & Rick Green - South Fraser Community Rail, MESSAGE to our BC Government. 'Bringing you Hydrogen Passenger Rail to the Fraser Valley'. #ConnectTheValley!
 Image - Submitted Bill Vander Zalm, Abbotsford BC - Dear Mayor Braun, As best as I can, I have been following your comments about the proposed “South Fraser Community Rail.” Your questioning of the work being done by this hard-working volunteer group, which has the livability of the Fraser Valley as its’ primary objective, is welcome, but unfortunately not based on facts. You obviously are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
 Image - Submitted, Proposed emissions-free hydrogen powered passenger train connecting Surrey to Chilliwack  Image - Submitted Frank Bucholtz, Peace Arch News, re-posted with permission - A proposal to use the former BC Electric Railway interurban line from Surrey to Chilliwack for passenger rail service has sparked a lot of interest and debate in recent months.
By Thomas Cheney, Rail for the Valley, Chilliwack Chapter
In 1910, Premier Richard McBride drove the last spike of the British Columbia Electric Railway finally providing a convenient connection between the Fraser Valley and Vancouver. Beyond being a ribbon of steel, it brought the new technology of electricity to the hinterland.
Today, the old interurban line could again bring advanced technology and transportation options to Bradner and the rest of the Fraser Valley. The Rail for the Valley and South Fraser Community Rail initiatives together present plans to connect Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford and Chilliwack with zero-emission hydrogen trains. This avoids the costs of electrifying the line while allowing British Columbia to showcase its excellence in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector. With over 1.2 million people currently living in the South Fraser region, a new solution, community rail is needed.  In recent years Bradner residents have seen a HUGE increase in rural traffic as commuters shortcut Hwy 11 to the freeway on Harris and 58th Ave - and industrial traffic shortcuts via Lefevure Road to the Fraser Hwy. Parents must guard their children catching school busses along these routes due to huge volumes of traffic traveling daily - at super high speeds. Trucks ignore the 'Not a Truck Route' signs. Commuters pass on double lines and whip around corners that are negatively banked instigating g-forces that threaten to launch vehicles into oncoming lanes or off the road entirely.
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