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Editor,
As a former resident of the Broadway, Burlingame neighborhood, I truly appreciated seeing two articles occupy over half of Friday’s front page on Burlingame’s “second” downtown, both focused on the Caltrain grade crossing. However, I was disappointed to see that one omitted what I consider to be of the greatest importance for Burlingame — a new train station! The current “station stop” only operates on weekends and holidays.
The second piece dealt with the civil suit brought against the city and Caltrain regarding the death of a motorist who had made the fatal error, quite literally, of stopping on the train tracks, an illegal but not uncommon violation that I have seen too often there and at other grade crossings.
On Nov 4, 2015, the Daily Journal published my letter, “A proven method of reducing vehicle/train crashes [https://www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-a-proven-method-of-reducing-vehicle-train-crashes/article_d1fb8242-dfb3-5a02-b9cd-b67df0dbb457.html],” after three grade-crossing crashes in Burlingame: two on Broadway, one on Bayswater.
The proven method is what is known as “automated rail crossing enforcement,” permitted by CA Veh Code § 21362.5 (2022) [https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-veh/division-11/chapter-2/article-1/section-21362-5/]. Motorists who stop on railroad tracks would receive traffic tickets resulting from the use of photo-taking technology.
I ended my letter by suggesting that Caltrain “replace the signs stating, ‘Don’t Stop on Tracks’ with signs warning of automated ticket enforcement and compliance will increase dramatically and lives will be saved.”
My advice holds today for all of Caltrain’s 71 at-grade crossings. Automated traffic enforcement works. In this case, lives can quite literally be saved.
Irvin Dawid
Burlingame
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Great idea; however I believe most locals don't get caught on the Broadway tracks. If you are not used to that horrible intersection of streets of streets, tracks, left turners, right turners, and short spaces between everything, it is difficult sometimes to not get caught on the tracks. People who get caught on the tracks, by and large, are confused and victims of what craziness is happening ahead of them.
That's an interesting analysis of the grade crossing.
My perspective is not of a driver but more from a Caltrain rider perspective. Yes, the crossing is right near a major intersection, and it is wider than many others, and it is very close to a freeway interchange.
But the basic driving fundamentals apply like as they would to other crossings: motorists are never permitted to stop on tracks, just as they must stop at traffic lights, stop signs, and observe all other traffic laws.
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