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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by tialaramex on Saturday August 10, 2019 @02:17PM (#20663659)
> Funding, however, remained unavailable in Ventura County for the estimated $35 million grade separation project.

That's the key line in that article. Adding it to Google Maps doesn't fix this. Putting up a sign that says "No idiot, don't turn here" doesn't fix this. Better driver training doesn't fix this. Better working time rules (the driver was "severely fatigued") doesn't fix this.

Grade separation fixes this.

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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by ApolloFortyNine on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:39PM (#20664082)
According to the Bureau of Transportation, there are 211,631 at grade crossings in the US [1]. At $35 million a crossing, that's $7.4 trillion.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/highway-rail-grade-crossings-typ...

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