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Originally Posted by Northendzone
it would be interesting to know how much time there is between the arms starting to come down and the train passing. i would ahve to think that the engineers allowed lots of time for a person with mobility issues to get across assuming they don't fall or get caught up in the tracks somehow.
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I live by an at-grade, between stations crossing, so decided to see what the timing was like.
The lights flash and the audible alarm starts going.
15 seconds later, the arms start to lower. They took 5 seconds to lower.
The train thundered through at the 60 second mark. It took 2 seconds to clear the crossing
10 seconds after the train, the lights and alarm shut off, and the arms went up (taking 5 seconds to rise)