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time you want to get a litre of milk? Introducing Walk Score @ http://walkscore.com. 

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The Port of Vancouver thinks that it could relieve the region of a lot of truck traffic, by shipping containers up the Fraser River on barges. This was discussed on March 5 at one of Metro Vancouver’s “Sustainability Dialogues“. This one was held in Surrey and most of those who attended were very much opposed to idea like the South Fraser Perimeter Road, which is being justified largely on the grounds of “need” due to the expansion of Deltaport. Of course, what the provincial government seems to be ignoring is that most of the containers that go out of this region move by train. It is only local traffic that goes byt truck, and most of that is for resorting into other containers, for shipping to retailers. The port thinks that if this activity could be carried out at an inland terminal served by water and rail, a lot of emoty truck trips could be saved.

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