Improvements Made to Rail Crossing in High Point

RALEIGH—The N.C. Department of Transportation has installed four-quadrant gates at the intersection of West Point Avenue and the Norfolk Southern Railraod tracks in High Point.

The $244,500 project was conducted as part of High Point's Traffic Separation Study and was fully paid for with federal funds. Norfolk Southern and the city of High Point will split the cost to maintain the crossing. As many as 50 freight and passenger trains travel through the crossing daily, at speeds up to 79 miles per hour.

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

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