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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