Norfolk Southern's reforms prevent risky train commutes for children and include a commitment to an overpass.
in May when he announced the Senate Commerce Committee’s passing of the bipartisan Railway Safety Act. Warnock inserted provisions into the legislation that would make it easier for communities to access grant money to build bridges over or tunnels under railroad tracks that are routinely blocked; the legislation would also create a process for communities to report blocked crossings directly to railroad companies and not just the government.
Indiana state Rep. Carolyn Jackson, a Democrat who represents the Hammond area, has filed a bill attempting to address blocked crossings every session for the past five years. None has ever gotten a hearing. Jackson said Norfolk Southern has known about the critical situation in Hammond for decades and the company has dodged efforts to fix the issue for just as long.
She said the company has a history of making idle promises and skirting the blame for its behavior. The lawmaker said it shouldn’t take four months for the company to agree on an amount to kick in for the overpass, which has been needed for more than 20 years. It feels like the company is trying to wait the community out, she said.
“It just doesn’t take long for a person or a company to resort back to their same ugly ways,” she said. “You can only keep up a front for so long.”
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