Rail Safety Week - September 18 to 24, 2023

WHEREAS Rail Safety Week is to be held across Canada from September 18 to 24, 2023; and

WHEREAS 232 railway crossing and trespassing incidents occurred in Canada in 2022; resulting in 66 avoidable fatalities and 43 avoidable serious injuries; and,

WHEREAS educating and informing the public about rail safety (reminding the public that railway rights-of-way are private property, enhancing public awareness of the dangers associated with highway rail grade crossings, ensuring pedestrians and motorists are looking and listening while near railways, and obeying established traffic laws) will reduce the number of avoidable fatalities and injuries cause by incidents involving trains and citizens; and

WHEREAS Operation Lifesaver is a public/private partnership whose aim is to work with the public, rail industry, governments, police services, media and others to raise rail safety awareness; and

THEREFORE, I, Mayor William Choy of the Town of Stony Plain, do hereby proclaim September 18-24, 2023 to be "Rail Safety Week".

Dated this 1st Day of September, 2023.

Mayor William Choy
Town of Stony Plain