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Posted 03 May 2015 - 07:13 PM

The Grand Island (NE) Independent, posted 5/2:
 

Phillips man: Railroad habits have motorists taking risks

 

A Phillips man says railroad behavior teaches people to try to beat trains at crossings.

 

Leon Cederlind says, if people know a delay will be two minutes, the public will obey the law. But when drivers don’t know if a wait will be two minutes or two hours, they’re going to drive around the crossing gates.

 

A spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad disagrees strongly with Cederlind’s contention.

 

“A motorist or a pedestrian should never go around lowered gates or through a crossing with automatic signals if a train’s present,” said Mark Davis, who works for U.P. in Omaha.

 

It’s very dangerous to go around crossings, Davis said. There’s a reason for crossing gates to be down.

 

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