Improvements Made to Rail Crossing Near Archdale

RALEIGH —The N.C. Department of Transportation has installed crossing signals and gates at the intersection of Lilley Flower Road (State Road 1747) and the Norfolk Southern tracks near Archdale.

The $156,940 project was paid for with 90 percent federal funds and 10 percent state funds from NCDOT. Norfolk Southern and the state will split the cost to maintain the crossing. Two freight trains travel through the crossing daily at speeds up to 25 miles per hour.

This Randolph County project is part of a comprehensive statewide program to enhance highway safety by adding or improving signals and gates at public railroad crossings. Varying types of mechanical warning devices are now in place at nearly 2,400 of North Carolina's 4,182 public crossings.

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