Kamloops British Columbia - Canadian Pacific Railway has raised the stakes in a long-standing beef with the City of Kamloops, by taking it's complaints to Transport Canada.
 
The railway says it is fed up with the amount of pedestrian and vehicle traffic around rail crossings at Second and Third Avenues.
 
CP officials say the problem has become worse since the new Sandman Signature Hotel and associated businesses opened on Lorne Street.
 
Spokesperson Salem Woodrow says CP wants the city to permanently close Second and Third Avenues between Lansdowne and Lorne Streets.
 
Kamloops Mayor Peter Milobar says closing Second and Third Avenues is a non-starter and adds CP could do its own part to decrease conflicts by parking its trains west of Second Avenue, instead of blocking the crossings.
 
Milobar says Transport Canada won't necessarily agree with CP.
 
Milobar adds the city has proposed different measures to try to direct traffic away from the crossings, but CP hasn't come on board.
 
He says this is a disagreement that dates back to when the city proposed to build a parkade along Lorne Street.
 
Milobar says CP had offered its land at Third and Lorne Street in exchange for the city closing the two crossings, but the city refused and the deal fell apart.
 
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