Show put pavement markings before grade crossings As an additional safeguard for the traveling public commissioner frederick stuart greene of the new york state commission of highways has directed the use of a method of marking the pavement at all approaches to railroad crossings on the state highways says the tha american Amerl cn city new york approaching the tracks from either direction of the highway the automo billat will first be confronted by two white parallel stripes painted one foot wide ana placed five feet apart these stripes will stretch clear across neross the pavement and will be placed feet from the nearest track the second guard against carelessness will be a third warning stripe also 12 inches wide painted feet from the nearest track if after reaching this third stripe the driver arver I 1 falls to stop look and listen h he will be given one more chance to save himself tile the final warning signal will be two feet wide and will be painted with white and black diagonal bars similar to the markings on railroad gates it will be located 25 feet from the nearest track which if the driver Is not running beyond the legal rate of speed will still give him opportunity to stop before reaching the track it is hoped by the commission that this new warning barnin 5 device will serve adre to reduce the number of grade crossing accidents during the long period that must elapse before all grade crossings can be eliminated in new york state |