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Who does this apply to?
Provincial or municipal authorities that cannot reach an agreement with a railway company on the relocation of railway lines around and away from urban areas in order to promote urban development.
How can the Agency help?
If provincial or municipal authorities cannot...
Web page | 2016-06-21
Background
The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) is responsible for ensuring that undue obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities are removed from air and federal rail, ferry and bus services and facilities. It seeks to remove these obstacles by:
administering regulations and...
Publication | 2016-06-08
The consultation is closed
This consultation took place between June 8 and July 11, 2016.
On December 6, 2016, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Scott Streiner, Chair and CEO of the Canadian Transportation Agency, announced the establishment of a...
Consultation | 2016-06-08
Part 1 - Insurance Requirements - Background and Features
1.1 Purpose
The purpose of this guide is to assist stakeholders to understand and comply with the new insurance requirements under the Safe and Accountable Rail Act (SARA) and to inform them about the process that the Canadian...
Publication | 2016-06-15
Executive summary
Introduction and background
The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) is an independent quasi-judicial tribunal of the Government of Canada. Part V of the Agency's enabling statute, the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10 (CTA), contains accessible transportation...
Publication | 2016-06-15
Under Part III, Division V of the Canada Transportation Act, a federal railway company must take these steps before transferring or discontinuing operations:
provide notice in the company’s three-year plan for at least 12 months of its intention to discontinue operating the line;
publicly...
Web page | 2016-06-21