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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Increasing the penalty, as some have suggested here, might reduce gate-running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it won’t help in cases where drivers believe the signals and gates are only advisory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just to clarify, advisory means that a driver is simply informed that a crossing exists, and then the driver is permitted to use his or her own discretion in deciding whether it is safe to cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><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;">That belief is not as far-fetched as it might at first seem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grade crossings come out of a 150-year tradition where the warnings were advisory for much of that history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To some extent, they still are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, there is nothing about the full warning system of gates and flashers that clearly dispels the left over belief that the warning is advisory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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