PHOTO: Roy Butler in Nyngan, where the community has raised concerns over a centrally located level crossing with no lights or boom gates. (Via Roy Butler)
Narromine will be home to a trial of new technology to make level crossings safer, after a statewide petition to introduce lights at all level crossings across the state gained traction.
Two men were tragically killed early last year when their truck collided with a train and since then, one man’s fiance Madeline Bott has worked tirelessly petitioning the NSW Parliament for improved safety at level crossing.
With over twenty-one thousand signatures, the petition requested the legislative assembly to make warning lights mandatory, decrease speed limits on highways approaching level crossings, and make trains more visible with reflective material and better lights…