A new Transportation Department grant program created under the infrastructure law is aiming to improve safety at the nation’s rail crossings, including five in Texas.
dubbed “a menace to commuters”
is relying on longer trains to cut costs — and as those trains increasingly hinder other traffic and lead to safety issues. “There is no monitoring to tell us to avoid the crossing, and there are not suitable alternative paths,” according to the petition, which has drawn nearly 6,300 signatures since early 2020. “During typical commute times, this crossing has been known to be blocked by a train for over 30 minutes regularly, sometimes over an hour.”
In one case Buttigieg mentioned, a Texas mom called 911 because her 3-month-old baby was in distress, but an idle train kept the ambulance from getting there and the baby died at the hospital two days later. The railroads insist those changes haven’t made their trains riskier, but regulators and Congress are scrutinizing their operations closely after several recent high-profile derailments. And the problems at rail crossings are well documented.
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