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| Jharkhand, India: Two killed on unmanned crossing as speeding car hit by train |
Two car occupants died as a result of the motorist’s folly of speeding across an unmanned crossing into the path of an express passenger train. The collision occurred in Jharkhand on July 31st, 2010.
(July 31st, 2010) |
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Kagoshima, Japan: Initiative teaches safe behaviours at crossings
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Children at a school in the Fukudaira district of Kagoshima re being taught how to use level crossings safely with a particular focus on cyclists. The initiative aimed at elementary school children has been mounted following the death of a pupil on a level crossing.
About 60 children participated with other family members present so that they too could reinforce save behaviours when talking with their children. To support the initiative a level crossing, complete with active controls was set-up in the school grounds to allow children to see and hear level crossing warnings at first hand.
(July 31st, 2010) |
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Ulundurpet, India: Siblings killed on unmanned level crossing
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Adult siblings were killed when they were struck by a train on an unmanned level crossing near Ulundurpet, Tamil Nadu. The accident which killed the two who were riding a bicycle occurred on Monday July 26th, 2010. In the absence of any emergency response to the scene of the accident the train driver loaded the bodies onto the freight train and conveyed them to the next staffed station where the police have opened a file on the incident.
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Residents and regular users of the level crossing have reminded the railway authorities that these deaths could have been avoided had their often repeated calls for the crossing to be staffed had been heeded.
(July 27th, 2010) |
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Edapally, India: Long-dormant grade separation project set to resume |
A long-dormant project to construct an over-bridge, associated highway improvements and to eliminate the very busy level crossing adjacent to the Edapally railway station in Kerala is set to resume.
Construction of the highway infrastructure to link with the road-over- rail bridge came to a stand more than two years ago when the contractor walked off the job. This left the span crossing the railway which had previously been constructed by the railway sitting in splendid isolation while the level crossing remained in use.
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Now, central government funds totalling INR 360m is to be made available to allow work to resume and eliminate the Edapally level crossing on National Highway 17 which is notorious for the delays it causes to road traffic
(July 26th, 2010) |
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Karabük, Turkey: Another fatal accident raises concerns |
Concerns have been expressed that level crossing accidents are occurring al too frequently across Turkey and that more needs to be done to prevent them. The latest city where these concerns have been voiced is Karabük where there was a fatal collision between train and car in the Yenice district of town on July 25th, 2010.
(July 25th, 2010) |
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Margao, India: Improvements to make journey safer for students |
A recent fatal accident at the level crossing in Margao, Goa, has set officials thinking about how best they might avoid a similar accident in the future. Although there is a subway at the Margao crossing it is prone to flooding and is thus unattractive to pedestrians, many of whom cross the railway at grade. One idea is to construct a raised walkway within the subway to create a dry route under the railway. Another idea is for a footbridge to be built as a component of a longer term scheme to better manage risk arising at the level crossing.
(July 24th, 2010) |
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Iga City, Japan: Collision on crossing leaves taxi stranded
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A late evening road accident on a level crossing in the Yamagami district of Iga City, Mie Prefecture, left a taxi stranded straddling the JR Kansai Railway main-line.
The road accident which occurred on July 9th, 2010, left the taxi driver and one of his passengers with non-life threatening injuries. Realising that the taxi was stuck, a passenger in the taxi pressed the panic alarm installed at the barrier equipped active level crossing allowing an approaching trains to be stopped short of the level crossing.
(July 9th, 2010) |
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Chromepet, India: Land acquisition problems stall underpass project |
More than 16 months after work began on the limited-use subway (LUS), replacing the existing railway line in Chromepet, Tamil Nadu, the INR 75.5 project has hit a roadblock.
The state highways department is finding it difficult to acquire land to construct ramps on either side of the rail line. The department needs 21 metres on either side of the level-crossing.
Originally, the project was expected to be completed in a year after the work started on February 27th, 2009. Works by Southern Railway have been moving slowly and not even 10% of the total work has been completed. While the project has been facing opposition from around 400 families who live on either side of the level crossing, the private contractor appointed by Southern Railway has diverted its workers to other sites, causing delay, sources said.
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Southern Railway’s decided in 1988 to replace the level crossing with a pedestrian subway, but because of a delay in executing it, state highways became involved in 2008 and the project was re-designed as a road under bridge, as it would allow all vehicles including MTC buses to use the subway.
According to the blueprint, the subway could be used by two-wheelers, cars and jeeps. It would have ramps, storm water drains and staircases would be an add-on.
(July 8th, 2010) |
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Izmir, Turkey: Sit-in against crossing closure protest halts trains |
500 citizens protesting the closure of a level crossing in the Gürçeşme district of Izmir staged a sit in on the railway right-of-way stopping trains for 20 minutes as they called for construction of a pedestrian overpass. The case for the overpass is that without it the community will be unacceptably divided. Residents living within 20 metres of each other now have to travel 4 kms if they wish to see each other.
(July 6th, 2010) |
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