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Old-style railway crossings often included gates that closed across the tracks to prevent this happening. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3VF4hWvjC3g/maxresdefault.jpg ht
by mhandley 7y ago
Old-style railway crossings often included gates that closed across the tracks to prevent this happening. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3VF4hWvjC3g/maxresdefault.jpg http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3VF4hWvjC3g/maxresdefault.jpg
Is it really that hard for the railways to fix this problem with better modern automated gates?
- Svip 7y agoI've only seen those kinds of gates in Europe. Mind, I have not seen all US railway crossings, but I have seen a few, and none of them had gates like that. Plus, I think there is too little money in the railway network's budget to implement those gates, so asking navigation apps to do it for them is the cheap option.
- aaronmgdr 7y agoMost of the ones I have seen have gates (I'm in the US)
- kd5bjo 7y agoUS rail crossing gates tend to move vertically, and there’s never a barrier that crosses the tracks, only the road. Sometimes, they only block the road in the direction of travel which leaves an easy path for drivers to go around the gates if they’re feeling impatient.