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The city of Carbondale, Pa., recently awarded a $235,900 contract to Railroad Signal International to install a concrete surface and two warning gates at a grade crossing on Dundaff Street.

The project is pending approvals by the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority — which owns the tracks that runs through the crossing — and the city’s engineering department. Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Co. Inc. operates the line for the authority.

The city received a $650,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for the project.

Meanwhile, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) plans to close a crossing in Waynesville. The crossing was identified as a closure candidate as part of an agreement with a railroad to eliminate three existing crossings in exchange for creating one new crossing.
 
NCDOT seeks to reduce the number of redundant, unsafe or low-volume crossings statewide. Since 1993, the department has closed more than 170 public crossings.