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<p>I am not speaking directly to this Houston crash, but generally there is a lot of thought going into the issue of how to make railroad grade crossings safer.  Progress always seems to be impeded, however, by the quest for perfect protection and the money to fund it.  Grade separation does seem to be the most practical means of perfect protection, but cost is an issue just as it is with the need to replace crossing passive protection with active protection.</p><p>There is something about grade crossings that produces an almost magnetic attraction to collisions with cars.  All railroaders know this instinctively.  But there has to be a better explanation than the common sentiment that drivers are idiots and morons (even though some are).  I don't know if there has ever been a technical analysis of this phenomenon, but I speculate that the incidence of collisions between a train and a vehicle is, by far, disproportionately higher than it is between two vehicles, when compared on the basis of identical numbers of route conflict encounters.  If this is true, then the question becomes:  What is it about trains that turns most drivers into morons and idiots?</p>
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