243129 obviously busy thoroughfare
obviously busy thoroughfare
The gates go down for Amtrak at the 3:22 mark of the video, and road traffic resumes movement at the 6:40 mark. Even after having the street blocked for 3 minutes and 18 seconds a whopping 2 cars crossed the railroad after Amtrak cleared, or less than one car a minute. Both of those cars were northbound. Yep, obviously busy. I would even say it rivals the Dan Ryan Expressway at rush hour.....
It appears that the street in question is North Lake Street, which is about a mile long. To see how busy it was I used Bing's steetview to travel down it both directions. There was no opposing cars when I did that, either way. There were however two kids walking down the middle of the street at one point. Busy indeed.
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n012944 243129 obviously busy thoroughfare The gates go down for Amtrak at the 3:22 mark of the video, and road traffic resumes movement at the 6:40 mark. Even after having the street blocked for 3 minutes and 18 seconds a whopping 2 cars crossed the railroad after Amtrak cleared, or less than one car a minute. Both of those cars were northbound. Yep, obviously busy. I would even say it rivals the Dan Ryan Expressway at rush hour..... It appears that the street in question is North Lake Street, which is about a mile long. To see how busy it was I used Bing's steetview to travel down it both directions. There was no opposing cars when I did that, either way. There were however two kids walking down the middle of the street at one point. Busy indeed.
Starting at 7:43 - 10:11of the video I counted 8 cars crossing, with no apparent regard for the work equipment leaving the siding, with one near miss at 9:42 and then you see a track worker decide to protect the crossing.
At 10:46 the first piece of track equipment crosses a busy thoroughfare at 10:59 gates go up. At 11:10 second piece of equipment enters crossing with gates up/ no protection.
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