| This could be unrelated, but we live adjacent to Lincoln Station and the horn has been blowing more frequently than usual, especially at night. I’ve lived her for over a decade and have honestly learned to tune out the train, but the constant horn blowing is quite apparent even to someone as numb to the noise as myself.
Kristine Sent from my iPhone Equally disturbing was when I was traveling north on Old Sudbury Road a couple of weeks ago. I noticed the gates were down on 117 but not on Old Sudbury Road, barely more than a football field away. I waited but ended up crossing carefully when cars pulled up behind me. I now approach each crossing in Lincoln like a school bus… Until this issue is resolved, I suggest we all do pretty much the same or be patient with those who do.
- Ken
There has been a tie replacement project for the past few weeks. The trains slowed down in the vicinity of the workers and would signal with their horn on approach. The project seems to have wrapped up, but they often implement a "slow zone" until the ballast settles around the new ties.
Despite the speculation people made, the root cause of the previous incident involving a gate failing to activate was due to maintenance personnel calibrating a level crossing predictor circuit as a train was approaching. This caused the equipment to not pick up an approaching train until it was at the island.
- Chris On Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 12:29 Joanna Owen Schmergel via Lincoln < [email protected]> wrote:
The primary concern, which I have harped about several times here on LT, is safety.
If the arms malfunction in the “up” or “unsafe” position, and one drives across the tracks thinking it is safe, only to have the train come full speed ahead causing fatalities, or best case scenario, a “near miss”.
I believe the trains are now all mandated to slow down to X miles an hour when approaching any crossing here in Lincoln and blow a “soft” warning whistle until thorough root cause analysis, followed by corresponding corrective action, is complete.
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