General Road and Highway Discussion

[Markster]

It would be a case of just being grandfathered in. The railway crosses 17 streets at grade from the mainline to Waterloo Park, most of them unsignalled. There is no speed to be gained by signalizing this one crossing, and that's often the major reason to signalize. Over the past decades, I'm sure that the spur has seen less and less activity, so with fewer and fewer train movements, the need to signalize has gotten lower and lower.

Now that Weber is 4 lanes, straighter, faster, and hitting the rail line at a very shallow angle, I can absolutely see this as a good reason to consider signalizing it. It's harder for a train to get the attention of 4 lanes of traffic than 2.