TO BAN UNSAfE OIl TRAINS
to Maayanot and Torah Academies State St. Bridge State St. The Plaza d W. Englewoo Rally Court St. Pool Bogert St. Play ground Evergreen Pa l i s a d e s Av e. Sports fields Tennis courts nne Rd. Queen A Benjamin Franklin Middle School Windsor Road Votee Park CSX River Line Recreation center Homes Powsetration sub 4 Route Bridge Danger Zone March W. Englewood Fire Station • Senior center • Child care prgrm. • Sports prgrms. 17, 2015 to Ban MaySunday Unsafe Oil Trains 1:00 pm – March in Teaneck, NJ 2:30 pm – Rally/Press Conference Have you noticed more and more freight trains barreling Ambulance through our towns lately? Corps Ever wondered what’s in them? e Bridg Up to 30 times a week, Stop& those loud, fast-moving Shop freight trains carry Bakken End crude, an extremely flammable and highly Begin here volatile form of oil. Bakken crude is exhere (1.5 mile tracted in North Dakota by fracking and is walk) shipped to refineries on the East coast. In 1 pm Bergen County, the River Line trains carry Bakken crude through our towns, passing schools, hospitals and ball fields, and across our Oradell Reservoir (providing drinking water to 800,000 people), putting all of us at risk! The oil and train industries say they are taking measures to keep us safe. Yet, even the newest upgraded “1232” train cars and the older “DOT 111” cars which run through Bergen County can – and do – explode like toxic bombs. That’s why people call them “bomb trains.” The Coalition to Ban Unsafe Oil Trains – a group of concerned citizens, first responders, civic groups, environmental organizations, labor unions, schools, and faith organizations – says: STOP THE BOMB TRAINS NOW! We’re calling for: • An immediate ban on transporting Bakken crude oil through our communities; • Transparency by government, oil and rail companies; • Move New Jersey toward a green, clean, renewable energy future. Join us Sunday May 17th 1:00 pm March: Assemble in Sagamore Park, Windsor Rd. and Beatrice Ave., Teaneck. We’ll start at the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps.; continue north on Windsor Rd.; stop briefly at other vulnerable spots: underpass to Route 4, Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Teaneck Fire Department, the State Street Bridge, stores and restaurants, near 2 private schools, and Votee Park with its heavily utilized sports fields and playgrounds, the Teaneck Recreation Center (home to a daycare center, a senior center, and youth sports programs), and a power substation. 1.5 mile walk. 2:30 pm rally: Palisade Ave. and Court Street in Votee Park, across from the “Teaneck Rail Yard” where trains carrying Bakken crude idle day and night. Speakers. Music. Everyone is welcome! Coalition to Ban Unsafe Oil Trains, May 17 demonstration co-sponsors •350NJ •350NYC •Bergen County Green Party •Bergen SWAN •Bronx Climate Justice North •Bus for Progress •Center for Biological Diversity •Chuck Augenbaugh, Deputy Fire Chief (Ret.) •Clean Water Action •ClimateMama •Environment New Jersey •Ethical Cultural Society of Bergen County •Food and Water Watch •ForestEthics •Friends of the Greenway •Hackensack Riverkeeper •NJ League of Conservation Voters •North Jersey Public Policy Network •The Northeast Teaneck Block Presidents Association •Pascack Sustainability Group •Puffin Cultural Forum •Renewable Energy Task Force, WNY Peace Center •SANE Energy Project •Sierra Club of New Jersey •Teaneck Community Charter School •The Mothers Project Please contact CoalitiontoBanUnsafeOilTrains@gmail. com to co-sponsor or join. The Danger Zone March is one of 48 Hours of Actions happening across New Jersey to call for Clean, Safe Energy.
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