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So today I was driving and almost broke my shocks at a crossing. There was construction there over 2 months ago, and they(meaning construction workers) raised the road about 3 inches. Hurts when going 40 MPH It has been this way the last two months. Is there any way I can contact someone to get it fixed?

 

 

Edit: I forgot the RR, it is the BNSF.

 

The folks at CSX will get right on that.

doghouse wrote:

The folks at CSX will get right on that.

When you know where freezes over! There's a control point signal and grade crossing near my mansion that has been on the fritz for over a month. CSX's signal maintaince has been notably absent.

Yeah we got one of those crossings in the milwaukee area. The crossing is owned by the UP. and same thing if you hit it at 35 mph it really hurts but what really gets me is when. A car slows down and almost stops on the tracks it hurts even more. espiacally when the next car behind that car has to slam on it's brakes to avoid hitting it. but anywho the samething the railroad was working on that crossing about 2 or so years ago they had the road closed off and they replaced the ties and all that fun stuff but anywho. Last I heard the city of west allis (MILWAUKEE COUNTY) they were planning on rebuilding theat strechof 60th st from West Lincoln ave to West Beloit road and including the railroad crossing. meaning they want replace the old wooden ties and put in new state of the art concrete ties to make it a safer and a better crossing to go over at 30 or 35 mph.

doghouse wrote:

The folks at CSX will get right on that.

Absolutely. lol

coborn35 wrote:

doghouse wrote:   The folks at CSX will get right on that. Absolutely. lol

Right after they finish painting their bridges..........

bb4884 wrote:

So today I was driving and almost broke my shocks at a crossing. There was construction there over 2 months ago, and they(meaning construction workers) raised the road about 3 inches. Hurts when going 40 MPH It has been this way the last two months. Is there any way I can contact someone to get it fixed? Edit: I forgot the RR, it is the BNSF.

To be honest, you will have better luck in dealing with your municipality than you will with the railroad - it is the municipality that maintains the surface roads.  We had a similar instance back in 2002, where the UP replaced an old asphalt crossing on Dobson Road here in Mesa with a concrete crossing.  This raised the level of the crossing about 2" higher than the surface of the road, so the UP construction crew made asphalt ramps up and over the crossing.  Unfortunately, this was not enough and if you drove over the track on Dobson at road speed, you'd come close to throwing your cars' alignment out.  Enough complaints were filed that the City of Mesa regraded and repaved Dobson Road about 100 yards from either direction of the track.  This solved the problem.

silicon212 wrote:

To be honest, you will have better luck in dealing with your municipality than

 

Great, I live in Denver...

The local municipality is who maintains the road crossings.  Granted the railroad maintains there part the rail and things like that, but the city or county are the ones that actually maintain the road and the approach to the crossing.

bb4884 wrote:

silicon212 wrote: To be honest, you will have better luck in dealing with your municipality than   Great, I live in Denver...

threaten them with having their favorite Mudchicken kidnapped and kept in Nebraska!