VANCOUVER - A bulldozer is mowing down mature trees and tearing up gardens along a stretch of abandoned Canadian Pacific Rail (TSX:CP) line that runs through the middle of Vancouver.
The once-abandoned 11-kilometre-long Arbutus Corridor has been used for many years by local residents as a greenway, where vegetables and flowers are abundant.
The bulldozer and accompanying dump truck is the culmination of a growing dispute between the rail company and the City of Vancouver over the value of the land.
CP warned residents back in May that it would been taking over the land and assessing the current track condition for the possibility of running trains again.
Sarah Myambo has been gardening on the land for 25 years and watched as the heavy equipment rolled into the area.
She says she only expected this type of thing to happen in Third-World countries.