Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Rail Crossing Safety To Be Improved

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, the City of Nanaimo and the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island are taking action to improve safety at the intersection of Highway 19A and Dorman Road, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Shirley Bond and Nanaimo Mayor John Ruttan last Monday.

“We are working together to ensure safety is our number one priority,” said Bond. “We’ve already installed new advance warning signage at the intersection of Highway 19A and Dorman Road and are instituting further safety enhancements this fall.”

Other safety enhancements include:
  •  Increasing the intensity of the existing flashing railway warning lights using LED   technologies.
  •  Installing additional high-intensity flashing railway warning lights.
  • Installing train-activated message boards in advance of the Dorman Road/Highway 19A intersection.

On Sept. 11, 2010, the Transportation Safety Board released a report on its findings of the Oct. 14, 2009 crash at this rail crossing that killed two people and injured a third. The ministry, along with the City of Nanaimo and the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island, immediately formed a partnership to find ways to act on those recommendations and are working together to implement improvements.

            “I am confident the additional warning signage and updated lighting technology will improve the safety of this rail crossing,” said Ruttan. “I am also very pleased with the co-operative effort taken to make these improvements.”

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