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Originally Posted by Mikeod
The gates used to have shorter arms that would allow bicycles and carts to pass through without a card or button push. It is actually a regulation in the federal code for uniform traffic control signs/signals and markings. The train comment was used to explain that requiring the arm cover the entire lane stemmed from a concern that a short arm on a railroad crossing could encourage someone to drive around it and be hit by a train. (Lord knows they still do that with the longer arms.) Thus the arms were replaced with longer ones.
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I'm actually pretty familiar with the The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and am pretty sure they don't apply to our unique situation (gates on public roads, with no at-grade RR X-ings)...but it's not worth arguing about because it's not going to be changed.
