When railway tracks pass through urban or suburban highways, traffic control on this section of the road occurs in a special way.
These include the installation of a duty booth, a barrier, and special road signs.
We have already talked about signs approaching a railway crossing, warning about the proximity of a railway crossing with a barrier. Now let's talk about another type of signs.
Railway crossing without barrier
Every motorist will be able to see it when approaching a railway crossing. In most cases, it is a triangle with a steam locomotive drawn inside it.
It may be unfamiliar to the modern generation, but car enthusiasts will be able to remember all the outlines by looking at the picture below.
According to existing rules, sign 1.2 is installed both within the city and outside it. At the same time, there are certain standards that both drivers and road services must know.
In particular, the sign within the city limits should be installed within 50-100 meters of the dangerous area.
If we are talking about a line outside the city, then the distance within which the sign can be placed can vary from 150 to 300 meters.
to “A car broke down at a railway crossing - what to do and what to do - advice from experienced people.”
- vs:
After all, I knew that this is how the presence of a train on the route is determined, but I didn’t think that this could be used to stop a multi-ton colossus. I probably didn’t allow such a situation to happen to myself, so my thoughts didn’t work in that direction. He advised the dummies to run towards the locomotive with “matte gestures.” I rate the proposed option six points out of five.Answer
- rom4ikh:
The situation is unlikely, but still it could happen. The method is quite interesting, I never thought that it was possible to stop a train with such simple actions. Although it is best, of course, to simply cross the railway in designated places. There is always a dispatcher there who will certainly help you.
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- Alexander:
Will it really work if the move is 50 kilometers from the dispatcher? Thank God I never had to be in such a situation, but it turns out there is a way out of even such a hopeless situation by closing the railway rails. I join the previous commentator and give this advice a ten.
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- Alexei:
I had the same situation quite recently. We went to pick mushrooms and had to cross the railroad tracks, and then your car broke down. Before that, I didn’t even know that it was possible to close the rails with wire, but something had to be done, and urgently. They didn’t find anything more effective than simply rolling the car off the tracks on their own. We were lucky that a couple of strong men also helped from the gazelle.
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- Oleg:
Yes, the situation described is not pleasant. You wouldn't want anyone to be in it. And if you consider how many such situations happen every day (after all, the media only report on large ones and, unfortunately, with human casualties), then this advice is simply invaluable. The main thing is that after removing the car from the tracks, do not forget to open the rails. Still, the railway is a very complex mechanism where the time factor plays an important role.
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- Ignat:
Honestly, I’ve never heard of this method, much less tried it, because I’ve never stopped on the rails for some reason. It is clear that a small passenger car can even be pushed off the rails on its own - forward or backward. But this won’t work with a larger car. PS Guys, but think about it, if somehow it stops not at a Zhiguli or a Moskvich, but at an expensive car, then where can I get the wire?! Should I quickly run to the control room?
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What a driver should not do
If a railway crossing sign without a barrier appears on the route of travel, the driver must comply with the following restrictions. For example, he is strictly forbidden to travel on the roads and make a stop on them. Otherwise, there is a direct threat to life and health.
If there are other drivers in line to pass, then traffic rules strictly prohibit overtaking. When the car is parked in a row of other cars, it is also not recommended to perform a maneuver in the form of reversing or turning around.
In addition to the above, road sign 1.2 of the Russian Traffic Regulations prohibits drivers from stopping at a distance of up to 50 meters before the crossing. Otherwise, sanctions may follow in the form of a fine or even deprivation of rights for up to several months.
Of course, any maneuvers that may threaten the safety of other drivers, as well as their passengers, are prohibited at a railway crossing.
What to do if you are forced to stop moving?
A forced stop at a crossing can be considered, for example, when a car suddenly stalls on the rails. There was no driver's intent, and no one is insured against a sudden breakdown.
In such a situation, there are clear instructions in accordance with which you should proceed:
- The hazard warning lights turn on.
- The driver is obliged to immediately disembark passengers in order to protect them if the train moves on the rails.
- Then steps should be taken to clear the crossing.
- If you can’t remove the car, you need to send assistants to both sides of it. They must walk about a kilometer from the scene of the incident, their task is to sound an alarm if a train is approaching.
- If there is only one assistant, he should be sent to where the situation is more dangerous, for example, visibility is complicated, the rails are turning.
- The stop signal for a train represents a circular motion of the hand. It should contain a bright, noticeable object - during the day it could be a bright fabric, at night - a torch or lantern.
- Someone must stay near the vehicle and sound alarms - one long beep, three short beeps.
Punishment for violating the requirements of road sign 1.2
Failure to comply with the rules of passage of railway tracks, as well as other violations of current traffic rules, entail administrative liability. Its types are described in Article 12.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, depending on the severity of the offense committed.
In particular, a driver who violates the rules for approaching a railway track may face the following sanctions:
- A fine for driving through a red light, the amount of which can be equal to one thousand rubles.
- According to the law, violating the rules for traveling on railway tracks is fraught with deprivation of a driver’s license. In this case, the period during which the driver will not be able to drive his car can range from three months to six months.
- If the driver deliberately violated the rules for driving through the tracks again, then the court may deprive him of his license for up to one year.
Of course, you can appeal the punishment on appeal. However, if the license is not handed over on time, the period of sanctions will increase proportionately.
Author: Tatyana Viktorovna Kosykh, source.
Barriers near residential buildings cause a “civil war” between neighbors
Typically, barriers start like this: activists from an initiative group walk through the house, collecting signatures and campaigning: outside there are enemies who dream of seizing our yard! Let’s not let ourselves be offended, we’ll close ourselves so that no one gets through! Only 5000 (approximately) rubles one-time!
“They came more than once or twice,” says Lyudmila Bubentsova, a resident of Kuusinen Street. — They insisted, tried to call a general meeting. The arguments are ironclad: indeed, many cars of officers from the nearest military unit come to our yard every day. In the evening, however, they leave, but the yards are packed to capacity.
The residents of this particular house took into account that only a small area with 15 parking spaces could be closed with a barrier, and were not tempted by the project. But in other places, such campaigns go off with a bang: if the yard is quite enclosed and there are several dozen parking spaces in it, many drivers living in the house think that the game is worth the candle.
For pedestrians
- You can talk a lot and obscenely! — the mood of Elizaveta Likhacheva, a resident of building 2 on Volgogradsky Prospekt, cannot be described other than “rage.” - If before the installation of barriers we had a large “Stalinist” yard with a through passage, now there are three barriers in it, for each house there is one, and there is no more through passage! Now you can only leave the yard in reverse.
Here is the first of the typical consequences of installing barriers. There are several houses in most courtyards, it is extremely difficult to choose a single “watcher” (and acceptor of money), which is why the barriers are independent of each other. Less room for maneuver means more difficult yard traffic. If you call for delivery from a store, don’t trust their navigator, call the driver back ten times and explain which gates of the house the car will be allowed through, and where you shouldn’t go.
“The people who operate our barriers are seriously affected by the “watchman’s syndrome,” continues Likhacheva. — In order to let a taxi or furniture delivery through to the entrance, you need to call the person in charge of the house and practically bow down. At the same time, if we are talking about night time, you can run into rudeness: they say that your own people are sitting at home at that time of day. What do they really care about, what, why and when I order?!
Here is the second characteristic disadvantage of barriers in courtyards: they suddenly disrupt the lifestyle of innocent pedestrians - including people like Likhacheva, ideological opponents of the car in the metropolis. Yesterday it was possible to get to the door by taxi without any hassle, or bring groceries and furniture using a delivery service - today, to do this, you need to “build relationships” with unexpected “household advice” and “seniors in the area.” For what?
And if barriers are also combined with fences, then such “fencing” sometimes ruins the life of pedestrians in an entire area. “We have a 16-story building near the Pervomaiskaya metro station in the summer,” Ilya Shikhman, a resident of Izmailovo, told MK. “As a result, they have a fence, but we don’t have a pedestrian path or shortcut to the metro.”
For drivers
“There is only one road leading to our house, a monolithic “tower” from Soviet times, and it is closed by a barrier,” says Anna Goncharova, a resident of house 19 on Volzhsky Boulevard. - That is, it is simply impossible to drive the car to the entrance without the approval of the senior housekeeper. She takes full advantage of this: she sells spaces in the local parking lot, there are 16 spaces. And for those who do not buy or rent these spaces, she tries not to sell the keys to the barrier. By the way, she sells these keys for 3500 rubles, and its cost is about 1200...
When power over the entrance is taken by self-appointed “house elders,” the temptation for arbitrariness is too great. Deny entry to the mother of a disabled child? Easily! Introduce “barrier sanctions” against individual neighbors by quarreling with them? Happens! What they protect is what they own, as they say. And this is the third consequence of the barriers - and no less serious than the first two.
When activists go door to door and promote the idea of a barrier, they usually promise that all special service vehicles (police, ambulance, fire) will pass through unhindered. This is also required by law: a legal barrier in Moscow can only be installed with the possibility of free passage for special equipment. But it only looks smooth on paper.
“We don’t have a control room that would let special vehicles through,” says Natalya Ivanova from 1st Dubrovskaya Street. “People just have key fobs, which also only work a few meters before the barrier. So the grandmothers go to meet the ambulance themselves, with their own feet. The police used to drive around the yard, patrolling, but now they turn around at the barrier and leave. I usually open the tractor myself if I can see it through the window (for me it opens when I call from my phone). If I don’t open it, they won’t clear the snow.
The opportunity to bypass the traffic jam by courtyards, which was previously used by ambulance drivers, has also disappeared, Ivanova continues. Considering that city maternity hospital No. 15 is located nearby, this is especially unpleasant.
Fight between armor and projectile
At the same time, anyone who really needs to come into the yard without an invitation can do so. “Many people have already picked up the keys to our yard on Tverskaya,” Muscovite Zoya Remizova told MK. — Strangers make “master keys,” buy and sell them, and easily enter the yard. So all these barriers are primarily from honest people.”
The next stage of this “fight between armor and projectile” is the complication of key fobs. “Our cooperative is going to replace chip cards with non-copyable key fobs or even RFID tags that need to be glued to the windshield,” said Artemy Pushkarev, a resident of the Academichesky district. “Because otherwise the courtyard will be occupied by employees of nearby offices and students of a neighboring university.”
Supporters of barriers refer to European experience. Indeed, in many European countries, closed courtyards are the rule, and open ones are the exception. So, in Sweden there are not so many courtyards of apartment buildings that you can move into - but if there are such courtyards, there are often barriers there, Gothenburg resident Olga Holmström told MK. This is natural, given that parking in Sweden is mostly paid, and households are private.
A completely different situation arose in East Berlin, which in the 1950s–1980s developed in line with Soviet urban planning and is thus similar to Moscow. There, as journalist Leonid Polyakov, a resident of the German capital, says, the barriers did not take root.
“The presence of a barrier does not in any way guarantee that parking spaces will go to those for whom they are intended,” says Polyakov. — Let’s say someone’s guests come and take up half of the parking lot! And secondly, the barrier is an undesirable obstacle for ambulances and firefighters. Therefore, in the East Berlin multi-storey areas, similar to the Moscow outskirts, in the 90s, not barriers, but parking blockers were installed. Tenants received keys and instructions to block their place when leaving. Rent costs a resident some symbolic money.
By law and by justice
The decision to install a barrier in the yard does not require cadastral registration of the land plot under the house, Vladimir Ryazansky, an expert on informatization of the capital’s housing and communal services, told MK. However, this barrier must be agreed upon with the municipal deputies of the district, and the rules for its operation must be approved at a general meeting of home owners. The barrier and its structural elements are common property, notes Ryazansky.
“If residents jointly decide to “close” the yard, then installing a barrier allows this to be achieved,” Ilya Sviridov, head of the Tagansky district municipality, told MK. — Basically, barriers come where paid parking appears on the streets. Initiative groups regularly contact us asking permission to erect barriers. There are a number of complaints about the installed devices, but these are a kind of reactionary forces that feel that the barriers have disrupted their usual way of life. For example, a person doesn’t have a car, and suddenly someone dares to put up a gate or barrier. He believes that people do not have such a right - in fact, they do. Problems with delivery and taxis are easily solved - normal people will find a way to agree among themselves.
Practice, however, shows that at the moment it is easier for many Muscovites to fight with their neighbors than to come to an agreement. “Our neighbors put up a barrier,” Vladimir Volkov, a resident of the Dmitrovsky district, told MK. - Well, so what, once it was smashed into pieces, another time - and they stopped restoring it. In fact, it blocks the common territory, why did someone start deciding who should ride here and who shouldn’t?” Exactly one hundred years have passed since the great and terrible revolution, which took place under the slogans of the abolition of private property.
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Until the middle of the 19th century, there were practically no apartment buildings in Moscow in the current understanding of this term. The main type of home ownership was an individual estate with a yard - entry to which, of course, was regulated by the owner of the land and house. The role of the barrier was played by traditional manor gates. Everything changed with the advent of apartment buildings, where one small courtyard was shared by many apartments. It was impossible to keep a “outhouse” in such a house - that is, a carriage and at least one horse: that is why even successful professionals of the early twentieth century - lawyers, doctors, scientists - as a rule, did not have their own outhouse. The gates of apartment buildings were closed at night by a janitor, who was also a low-ranking police officer. By the way, for opening the gate at night to a late tenant, he expected a tip: they would have gotten him off the couch!
The next turning point was the beginning of the twentieth century, the time of the appearance of private cars in Moscow. At first they began to park them in special garages - at least this provided protection against theft. But at the beginning of the last century there were still too few cars in private hands, and even more so in early Soviet times. Therefore, the problem of parking was still irrelevant. And the wipers worked almost as before - except that the gates were most often not locked at night. This “relic of the past” was put an end to in the early 1960s: street cleaners disappeared, and new neighborhoods began to be built in an open plan. Cars - still few in number at that time - were parked right at the entrances, that is, in courtyards and on the streets. Something like this—adjusted for the increase in the vehicle fleet and the appearance of “elite” gated houses in the 90s—the situation looked like until our time, when, in 2012, paid parking began to be gradually introduced in Moscow—and residents of many houses began to think about “fencing” yard parking lots .
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Important information
On the road, it is important to follow the rules and, of course, maintain the car in perfect order in order to avoid systems failure and subsequent emergency situations.
For all violations that may be committed by motorists and drivers of other vehicles, they can be punished by law by drawing up a report and imposing not only a fine, but also a ban on driving a car for a certain period.
Regarding crossings, we can say that by following the rules, the driver can protect both himself and his passengers, not only from punishment, but also from death, since collisions of cars and trains most often end this way.
What it is
At the intersections of highways and railways, special crossings are created, which are a specially equipped zone that notifies drivers of an approaching train.
The crossing is equipped with limiters in the form of barriers or an anti-ram device is installed that do not allow cars to pass.
Additional technical means will include traffic lights and automatic crossing alarms, informing drivers of the need to slow down near the crossing and wait for the train to pass. Signal posts with reflectors can also be installed along the perimeter of the crossing.
His purpose
The organization of the crossing is necessary to allow cars to move safely across the rails, without the threat of a collision or creating an emergency situation. While there is no train, the crossing operates as normal, but as soon as it activates the warning mechanism or the duty officer sees it approaching, all systems are activated, the barrier closes, and from that moment on, movement through the zone is prohibited. Thus, a properly equipped crossing minimizes the possibility of an accident and also gives drivers time to complete all maneuvers and stop to allow railroad traffic to pass.
Current legal framework
All signs that are installed on the road to the crossing are contained in the Traffic Rules in the corresponding section.
In addition, the requirements for the equipment of such an intersection can also be seen in this set of norms and rules; there are also recommendations on the behavior of drivers that must be followed so that movement is carried out without violations and in full compliance with all standards. To find out about all the signs and their meaning, you should refer to the traffic rules, thus the driver receives the necessary knowledge and can drive on public roads without violations.
But for violation of travel rules, failure to comply with the requirements of signs and markings, punishment is imposed. The inspector selects it based on the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
For example, Article 12.10 contains almost all offenses that can be recorded at a railway crossing and entail appropriate punishment. Thus, it is in accordance with the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation that the measure of influence on the driver is selected, and the violation as a whole is qualified.
There is also an instruction manual for the operation of railway crossings, which is intended for responsible persons and will be of little interest to ordinary drivers.
Safe crossing of tram rails and railway crossings on a motorcycle
And so let's talk about crossing tram tracks on a motorcycle . It is worth noting that only those who have had the misfortune of crossing tram rails or railway crossings can appreciate the seriousness of this issue. In fact, cold and wet metal is as slippery as ice.
chance of holding on to the unexpectedly slipped rear wheel, and even more so the front wheel of a motorcycle , when crossing tram tracks. The higher the rail protrudes, the more dangerous it is to cross it!
It is best to cross tram rails or a railway crossing so that the motorcycle intersects the rail at a right angle. The most dangerous thing, of course, is to change lanes from the tram tracks to the far right lane, especially in the rain; during such a move, both wheels will at some point end up on the rail and then it will be almost impossible to hold the motorcycle. The motorcycle will not move, will not throw from side to side, it will simply tip over.
Most of those who were “lucky” when crossing the rails confirm that it is simply impossible to react; not even a second the motorcycle “overturns.”
Once, after driving through a shallow puddle at an intersection, I decided to change lanes from the left lane (I was moving between tram rails) to the far right, and due to the fact that the motorcycle tires did not have time to dry after driving through the puddle, my motorcycle instantly fell on its side. The speed was 30-40 km/h, this was enough for the plastic of the motorcycle to crack , and the brake foot to bend and, of course, some part of it broke off. I myself escaped with only a fright, thanks, of course, to the full motorcycle equipment .
The figure on the left shows a motorcycle and tram tracks, red crosses indicate the most dangerous trajectories, the more red marks, the more dangerous the trajectory, the green mark shows the safest option for crossing iron structures on the road.
Also, from my experience, I would like to note one more event: already in hot weather, at almost zero speed in a traffic jam at the next start and before braking, when the motorcycle over the rail, the front wheel simply shifted and “thanks to” my previous “experience” I already Anticipating the possibility of such a slip, I managed to catch the motorcycle with gas ! The weather was dry, the asphalt was hot, but the tram rail remained just as slippery!
The correct thing to do is to roll the motorcycle over the rails, supporting yourself with your feet. Don’t naively think that the higher the speed, the safer it will be to cross tram or railway tracks on a motorcycle ! High rails of 10 cm or more must be crossed even more carefully than standard type tram tracks.
At railway crossings, you need to be wary not only of metal structures, but also of the so-called “jumping” boards or slabs. Looking at the image you will understand what we are talking about. If you see such a board/slab, wait until the oncoming car crosses this area and only then move on your motorcycle .
a jumping board or slab at a railway crossing in the path of a motorcycle!
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