LILBURN, Ga. — Some Gwinnett County neighbors who live next to railroad crossings are taking concerns about safety to county leaders.
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Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson reports the county is figuring out what to do about three railroad crossings.
At Lilburn City Hall, people near Arcado Road are learning about what could be built to deal with what they call a dangerous rail road crossing.
More than 13,000 cars a day cross these CSX tracks on Arcado Road in Lilburn, and neighbors say it’s rough on tires and suspensions.
“Well, it’s a beast at the best,” Doug Edwards said. He lives Arcado Road and drives it almost every day.
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“Some cars stop completely and just wiggle across the road. Some just fly over it,” Edwards said.
Drivers are rear-ending each other on both sides of the tracks, according to county crash data.
“The CSX crossing is bordering dangerous,” Edwards said.
The county’s board shows three ways to lift the road over those tracks on a bridge.
“One is a very undesirable and, I would say, inappropriate solution, which is to take down the existing road for many months, probably over a year,” said Scott Danos.
The county is studying two other crossings the same way, including at Oak and Gloster roads.
The study is set to wrap up in January, and any of these bridges would still need construction money.
“I’ve heard estimates of if they got to go ahead today, it could be seven years,” Edwards said.
Neighbors also want CSX to help with smoothing the crossings like they’ve done before.
“We’ve been here 36 years, and that’s every five or 10 years, the road breaks down,” Danos said.
No funding has been set aside for this yet, and any construction is years away from being complete.
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