After that hearing will be flagger-removal hearings for Ulster Street, York/Josephine streets and Quebec Street. The other five crossings on the commuter rail line, which goes out to Denver International Airport, will get the same consideration over the next couple of weeks, with Monaco Parkway and Sable Boulevard listed on Wednesday’s Public Utilities Commission agenda.
Friday, while the flaggers at Havana and Chambers will be relieved for good at 6 p.m. Regional Transportation District spokesman Scott Reed said flaggers will come off the crossings at Clayton, Steele, Holly and Dahlia at 6 p.m. It’s not clear how long it will take for a quiet-zone status to be granted once the applications are submitted. “I think an evening spent outside of our homes enjoying the long-awaited return of quiet times, and nights spent sleeping with the windows open, will be high on everyone’s list.”ĭenver and Aurora officials this week told The Denver Post that each city is ready to submit its quiet zone application for each A-Line crossing in its jurisdiction to the Federal Railroad Administration, which has the authority to carve out exemptions to the federal rule requiring trains to blast their horns through at-grade railroad crossings. “Most definitely, a celebration among friends and neighbors in my community will be taking place,” said David Martin, a Park Hill resident who has dealt with up to eight horn blasts an hour from trains crossing Dahlia over the past two years. The long-awaited OK is what is needed to pull back the flaggers, who have been in place at least since the A-Line launched in April 2016 at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. Late Monday, federal regulators signed off on a plan to remove flaggers at six crossings - Clayton, Steele, Dahlia, Holly and Havana streets, and Chambers Road - echoing a ruling made by their state counterparts last week that the automated crossing gates are safe enough to function without on-site supervision. The first of dozens of flaggers along the University of Colorado A-Line who have kept a round-the-clock presence for more than two years at its crossings will lay down their stop signs starting Friday - a move that starts the clock on the end of the blare of train horns along the 23-mile line. RTD to remove A-Line flaggers from 6 crossings
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