Some safety improvements coming to the Griffin Street railroad crossing in Danville may allow the city to get its first railroad ‘quiet zone’. Danville Community Development Director David Schnelle says vehicular and pedestrian gates are going to be added at the site where, tragically, 13-year-old Deon Jackson was struck and killed by a train last summer.
Schnelle explained to members of a City Council’s Public Works Committee what a quiet zone is…
Schnelle says the first quiet zone could extend from near Bowman Avenue all the way to the city’s corporate limits near Daisy Lane. And Schnelle adds there is a potential for a second quiet zone where trains would no longer blow their horns…
Schnelle says the CSX Railroad and Illinois Commerce Commission have been eager to work with the City of Danville in efforts to improve safety at railroad crossings.
