Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!mart From: mart@utai.UUCP (Mart Molle) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Eastern Myopia and the Crow Rate Message-ID: <311@utai.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 10:51:11 EST Article-I.D.: utai.311 Posted: Fri Dec 7 10:51:11 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 11:42:03 EST References: <653@watcgl.UUCP>, <218@looking.UUCP> <106@winston.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 17 > A: I am one inhabitant of the West who strongly believes the > Crow Rate had to go, however... > > B: one must recall that large parts of Western Canada were given > to the (Eastern) railways in return for the Crow Rate. > > Do you know how much of downtown Vancouver (for example) is > owned by CP and CN? Put it this way, when the government > needed land for a) the rapid transit system, and b) expo 86 > they dealt with Marathon Realty (the property arm of CP Rail)! Large parts of downtown *Toronto* are owned by the railways too. This problem is not unique to the west. Right now Marathon Realty is in the midst of a long fight to essentially double the size of the downtown financial district (i.e., the infamous ``Bay Street'' where all the corporate headquarters are located) by ripping out the freight and maintenance yards adjacent to Union station.