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Show TO REPLACE ALL RAIL CROSSINQS Federal Aid Highways to Eliminate Danger: Washington, Grade crossings will be eliminated wherever possible aad replaced with bridges or under passes en all reads of the federal aid high way system to be constructed under the federal highway act, the.totrean, 'ef pnbUc toad annehaced BVIiiay, Important roads, many of which at present crocs and recresa rallreaae at grades, hereafter will be built entirely en-tirely on one side of the railroad, eves though this Increase the coet of cett-stnctlen, cett-stnctlen, or, if crossings are unavoidable unavoid-able or Justified by local Interests, the road will pass over or under the track, the ralload In Instances of this kind bearing half the cost of bnlld ng the brtdgo or under pass. In the three years ending with "02O. according to records available at the bureau, SQ96 Uvea were lost and 10,044 persons wnro Injured nt- grade- crossings In the United States. |