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It looks like rail lines are also cut off. This is kind of a big deal for shipping. Approximately $200 billion goods/year travel through Vancouver, including
by btilly 5y ago
It looks like rail lines are also cut off.
This is kind of a big deal for shipping. Approximately $200 billion goods/year travel through Vancouver, including millions of (metric) tonnes of grain bound for Asia, and imports of Chinese goods bound for the rest of Canada. Most of that traffic now needs to find another route until repairs are made.
- Symbiote 5y agoAre all of them cut off? There seem to be four, one north, two along the river, and one south. https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=49.34659884833293&lon=-115.323486328125&zoom=6 https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=49.346598...
- btilly 5y agoFrom https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bc-floods-rail-impact-1.6250554 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bc-floods-rail-impact-1.625... it looks like some lines are out and others remain to be inspected once things clear up. So maybe all, maybe not all, but enough to be a big problem. A dairy farmer in Abbotsford is quoted as having only 5 days of feed. Consider the economic damage if farmers have to kill livestock, and can't even get them to a meat packing facility to recoup any part of their losses.
- deanCommie 5y agoTwo are cut - the washout is on the eastern-most line heading to Kamloops about halfway up from Chilliwack. That's the most direct rail line to the rest of Canada. Going through the US and via Spokane is quite a detour. Also not all rail lines are created equal. The northern-orientated line that heads to Prince George can't carry the same capacity.