Looking for "goboard"

[Anonymous]

Hopefully someone out there knows "goboard" or can give him/her a heads-up on this one...... I was reading one of "goboard's" posts regarding crossing crashes and he/she said something very interesting about safety equipment being "grandfathered" by federal law when existing crossings do not have a crash history BEYOND the time at which standards were upgraded. For example, if the law mandated 12" lenses on side-of-street flashers, yet there were 27 fully functional state locations with 8" flashers and no crash history, then the state could elect to "leave well-enough alone" and NOT waste public funds to simply replace something that was working fine. I was hoping to e-mail him/her off this forum but the e-mail link was not in the member profile.

FYI - I'm a professional rail safety analyst looking for any federal precedent that justifies the decision to NOT spend money in locations where there is no demonstrated NEED..... I would rather spend our limited funding on higher-risk locations that would upgrade warning from crossbucks to flashers, than to replace equipment that works fine but may be outdated.

Thanks in advance for any help.......

Respectfully submitted,

aaman