Sentence examples for crossing gates from inspiring English sources

Crossing gates do not work".

But when groundwater problems inflated the plan's costs, the city got permission to use crossing gates that block all traffic lanes.

If only there had been crossing gates to stop her from driving in front of a CSX locomotive on that autumn day in 1997.

On the Long Island Rail Road, extra crews could be dispatched to remove crossing gates before the storm if necessary, in a bid to protect the gates from high winds and help facilitate a quicker recovery after the storm.

(AP) — Two truck drivers and a train engineer watched helplessly as a semitrailer skidded the length of a football field before it smashed through crossing gates and into two double-decker cars of an Amtrak train at a highway crossing, killing at least six.

Crossing gates close at least 20 seconds before a train reaches the crossing.

These standard practices utilize active warning devices similar to those at vehicular crossings: signal equipment modified from that of vehicular crossing, crossing gate arm, and a crossing configuration which channels pedestrians.

After noting that the base of one of the warning units was cracked and bent, the officer concluded that the crossing gate failed "to operate properly," according to a police report.

Commuters on Long Island were cold, late and cranky after frozen signals and switches -- and a truck that ran into a lowered railroad crossing gate in Mineola -- caused extensive delays on the most crowded line, said Brian P. Dolan, a railroad spokesman.

The PN model of such system consists of three cooperating sub-models expressing in Fig. 2 left) the behaviour of the train, crossing gate and control system.

A lowered crossing gate on Buena Vista should have blocked his path.