A CP police officer stands by as workers remove community gardens from the Arbutus Corridor - 14 Aug 2014 Darryl Dyck.
14 August 2014
CP Rail Begins Bulldozing Gardens in Dispute with Vancouver Over Land Purchase
Vancouver British Columbia - A bulldozer is mowing down mature trees and tearing up gardens along a stretch of abandoned Canadian
Pacific Railway line that runs through the middle of Vancouver.
The once-abandoned 11-kilometre-long Arbutus Corridor has been used for many years by local residents as a greenway, where vegetables and flowers are
abundant.
The bulldozer and accompanying dump truck is the culmination of a growing dispute between the rail company and the City of Vancouver over the value of the
land.
CP warned residents back in May that it would been taking over the land and assessing the current track condition for the possibility of running trains
again.
Sarah Myambo has been gardening on the land for 25 years and watched as the heavy equipment rolled into the area.
She says she only expected this type of thing to happen in Third-World countries.
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