It could get loud in Vaughan for transport minister on Friday

Yorkregion.com
Aug. 21, 2017
By Tim Kelly

It's going to be a blast outside Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca's Vaughan constituency office Friday morning.

Del Duca might not be around to hear the 11 a.m. horn-blowing protest, but his office staff likely will be, and so will anyone close by the 5,100 Rutherford Rd. location.

Shanta Sundarason leader of the No More Horns group, who has been upset ever since Del Duca announced in June that an additional 11 p.m. train would run through Markham to Stouffville before the city of Markham could silence its train horns, said the protest is aimed at Del Duca because he won't listen to the group.

"Del Duca is ignoring the pleas from our councillors, our MPPs to either cancel or reschedule the 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. trains, which is completely arrogant, so we're taking it further and taking it directly to him," Sundarason said.

"We will deliver a letter to his office and ask to meet with him; we're going to get some blow horns and lay on our car horns for about 10 seconds. We don't want to be a nuisance, we just want to make a point," she said.

Sundarason said her group will go to the Legislative Assembly in September if nothing changes.