battalion51
Engineer
Thanks to the improvements made during the Double Tracking of the South Florida Rail Corridor, the city of West Palm Beach has put whistle bans into effect. From just south of the Mangonia Park station through to Forest Hill Blvd. trains are banned from using their horns except under emergency conditions. However, when the train is approaching the crossing they are supposed to have the bell on (like that does anything). During the reconstruction of the rail corridor the crossings recieved gates that block the entire crossing so cars can't drive around them (either through quad gates or high curbs). The crossings also activate much longer ahead of a train so that cars will have time to clear the crossing if they are blocking the crossing. I saw the ban in effect in person yesterday at the Belvedere Rd. crossing near Palm Beach International, it's very odd to see them roll across a crossing without a seeming blink of the eye. Oh the world we live in. <_<