New French plan for level crossings
The French government has announced steps to reduce the number of people killed at the country’s 15,405 level crossings. Between 30 and 40 people are currently killed each year, at a rate which is six times higher per million train kilometres than in the UK.
Measures to be introduced include reducing speed limits on approaches by 20kph, after it emerged that 38 experimental speed traps near level crossings had recorded almost 72,000 speeding offences in 2017, and vehicles passing closed or closing barriers on 27,500 occasions.
We've read it in: Today’s Railways Europe, June 2019, p6
