Grade
Crossings
To continue reducing the risk of incidents at highway-rail crossings, BNSF invests an average of $95 million annually on a
combination of grade-crossing maintenance, technology and safety education programs.
The result is one of the industry’s lowest highway-railroad grade-crossing collision rates. Since 1995, the rate of grade-crossing
collisions involving BNSF has decreased about 68 percent, from 5.3 per million train miles in 1995 to 1.7 per million train miles in
2013. In addition, BNSF has worked with many communities and landowners to close more than 5,750 grade crossings since 2000.
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