MELBOURNE, Fla. — Melbourne City leaders will discuss adding more safety measures to help people stay safe at railroad crossings across the city. The discussions come after two different crashes in early January at the same railroad intersection, which left three people dead.

What You Need To Know

  • Melbourne City leaders will discuss adding more safety measures to help people stay safe at railroad crossings across the city
  • The discussions come after two different, deadly crashes in early January at the same railroad intersection 

  • On Monday, Melbourne city crews set up reflective traffic posts — called delineators — at the WH Jackson Street Crossing near U.S. 1

  • The slim posts will keep people in their own lane to prevent people from going around the crossing arms

On Monday, Melbourne city crews set up reflective traffic posts — called delineators — at the WH Jackson Street Crossing near U.S. 1. The slim posts keep people in their own lane to prevent people from going around the crossing arms. 

Investigators say in both crashes at that intersection, trains hit drivers after they went around the downed crossing arms.

“I wonder why someone, not once but twice, would go around the safety devices,” said Melbourne Mayor Paul Alfrey. “At least this is something that will keep traffic in the appropriate lane.”

Alfrey said the delineators are a short-term fix.

“This is just a short-term solution,” said Alfrey. “A lot of the funding — the $45 million — throughout Brevard County and down south is to install quad gates and such, so this is just a temporary solution.”

Alfrey said the city will install quad gates at a later date. Quad gates have four arm bars, two on each side of the road, with no room for people to drive around them.

City leaders will discuss more safety measures at Tuesday's council meeting at 6:30 p.m.