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Canada's new grade crossings regulations

Know your road authority's responsibilities

by NOLET A, BROWNLEE R
Published in March 2016 - Page 23

With more than 48,000 kilometres of railway track and 15,000 railway crossings across Canada, it is very likely that a track intersects one of the roads under your jurisdiction. The management of at-grade rail crossings has always been a shared responsibility between the road authorities and the railway companies; however, in the past, railway companies directed the majority of design, operations, and maintenance associated with these crossings. Proposed changes to this historic relationship were delayed,

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