Quinte West council is still considering whether or not to request that trains stop blowing their warning whistles around the crossing at 2nd Dug Hill Road in Trenton’s west end.
The city has already commissioned a crossing safety study at its own expense but CN spokesman Daniel Salvator told council Monday night that the city’s insurance costs will go up and modifying the crossing to make it more safe might be costly to the city.
“You know it could be up to half a million dollars if we need to move a bungalow or improve a warning system that you know if the sight line is such that a driver would be approaching the tracks with a minimal sight line with the locomotive or crews.”
Quinte West’s Public Works Committee will discuss the issue again after receiving more detailed information from CN.
