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Jenny: Do you mean, grade seperationg/singalization? Or are you referring to actually transfering road traffic to rail? If the first, then, yes, I totally agree. And, BTW, I see nothing wrong with using 100% tax dollars to do this. What is real crazy is we have a situation locally where a commuter rail system may be going on atop an existing, rapidly growing shortline freight route. And the city I live in wants to plunk two additional grade crossings in...... Singalized or not I think they're nuts. As for the second option? In short run corridors, maybe you can get some cars transfered over, but you'll never get more than a minority percentage. In long run corridors, you probably could get a significant dent in trucking... but that's another topic. Amtrak has such a high profile very time it wrecks into something because it wrecks into things all the time. This is mostly the function of higher train speeds. That trucker was probably used to pulling in front of trains all the time.... 30 mph or less freights... and misjudged the faster Amtrak train. Sadly, even if every crossing were signalized, hitting vehisles will always be a fact of life for RRs.
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