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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">This latest news that the crossing was intentionally “deactivated” by the railroad company just blows me away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You cannot simply shut off or deactivate a signalized crossing and expect drivers to treat it as a non-signalized or so-called passive crossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drivers naturally rely on the lights and gates to warn them of approaching trains, so they pay less attention than if there were no lights and gates.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore it follows that if the lights and gates fail to activate, you have a crossing situation that is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">far more dangerous</span> than a crossing only having unlighted crossbucks.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe the railroad company thought they could make up for the missing safety factor by flagging the crossing for trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>However, they proved that the hyper hazard of a failed crossing signal system also applies to trains standing on the crossing as well as trains approaching the crossing.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">People talk about drivers being morons and idiots on this forum all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The real moron / idiot is the person who decided to de-activate that signalized crossing and just let it go at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">      </span></span></span></span></p>
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