Re: Boom gates for level crossing tragedy spot

[BEE EFF <mcreely@pnc.com.au>]

Maurie,

As a person who does regular trips to Junee, I would have to disagree about
there not being many crossings (and those that are having heaps of booms)
between Sydney and Junee.

Most X-ings with booms you will find are in Major towns ie:Goulburn,
Cootamundra and Junee, but aside from that there are bucket loads of pedestrian
X-ings, private X-ings etc these are protected by either lights only or warning
signs.

As far as what X-ing gets what protection I would say it would depend on if any
one was killed at it(not being facetious), if a member of parliament lives near
by(as seems the case with Nubba Gates), visibility(a number of new speed boards
have popped up near  X-ings - acccount visibilty) and lastly public opinion.

Regards BEE EFF

keith malcolm wrote:

> Maurie Daly <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
> 3a8b30a7.16531326@can-news.tpg.com.au">news:3a8b30a7.16531326@can-news.tpg.com.au...
> > Part of this problem is that there appears to be huge inconsistancies
> > in what sort of protection level crossings get within and across
> > jurisdictions .
> > As an example if we consider the Sydney - Melb line from Sydney to
> > Junee, there arnt many levet crossings , and what there are in the
> > main have boom barriers , even on fairly minor roads.
> > South of Junee however as far as Albury , there are far less boom
> > barriers , even though the crossings are still on major roads
> > In Victoria there are even less again boom barriers , relying mainly
> > on flashing lights only.
> >
> > The obvious question is are there any rules , written or unwritten
> > which determine on what basis a particular crossing gets what sort of
> > protection.
> > Who makes these decisions??
> >
>
> I would say it's because the section Junee- Albury is single rather than
> double line, and the booms are to stop people crossing if two trains pass on
> or near the crossing in opposite directions.
>
> Dave Malcolm
> > MD
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