Originally Posted by
Skeptic Ginger
No, you don't enter the intersection or start across train tracks unless there is room to get clear.
It really is just this simple.
Lights, horns, whistles, cops, gates, none of that is relevant. They only exist to attempt to dissuade the people who are so brain-dead that they ignore this simple rule.
A while back I noticed that rows of plastic uprights were being installed between lanes for about 40 ft. either side of all the two lane RR xings around here. This was because, in spite of gates, horns, bells, and whistles, people were
still trying to get across the tracks ... by going into the other lane after oncoming traffic had stopped for the warning systems.
You can't cure stupid.