BERRYVILLE — Town officials hope designating an official truck route will help keep tractor-trailers and other large transport vehicles off residential and downtown streets.
BERRYVILLE â The train isnât moving fast enough in getting away from East Main Street, town officials believe.
Berryville Town Council decided Tuesday night to send Norfolk Southern a letter, urging the railroad company to get a move on.
Town staff members recently compiled a list of 37 occasions since January 2019 when stopped locomotives blocked one of Berryvilleâs two railroad crossings. Most involved the East Main crossing and not the lesser-traveled Josephine Street crossing.
Roughly 40% of the incidents actually involved the East Main crossing being blocked by a train. The rest involved trains stopping near the crossing, keeping track sensors activated and causing the stop arms to stay down. The listed incidents resulted in traffic being blocked for a total of 28 hours and 57 minutes. The longest blockage, which happened overnight on Feb. 29 and March 1 of this year, lasted a little more than three hours.