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CITY OF KINGSTON/TOWN OF ULSTER QUIET ZONE AND CITY OF KINGSTON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND MOBILITY ANALYSIS

The County of Ulster, New York, selected RLBA to perform a CSX rail corridor Quiet Zone implementation plan and to propose pedestrian safety and mobility improvements at City of Kingston grade crossings. Coming as it does soon after publication of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Final Rule with regard to creation of quiet zones – in which locomotive horns are not sounded -- the study is founded upon years of development of federal Quiet Zone regulations. The study investigates the feasibility and cost of implementing Supplementary Safety Measures, which provide a degree of protection sufficient to replace the sounding of locomotive horns, at twelve crossings in the city and county. Public involvement is utilized to inform and to obtain public input. A diagnostic team was organized, inspected all twelve crossings and made recommendations in regard to each. Because trains sometime block street crossings in the City of Kingston, a range of measures is being examined to provide protection and a means of safely crossing blocked intersections.




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