Westchester County is testing railroad crossing-style gates to block parkway entrances when there is severe flooding.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- New York City's northern suburbs are using a new tactic to keep drivers off dangerously-flooded parkways. Westchester County is testing brightly-colored barriers that resemble railroad crossing arms at a handful of parkway entrances. Westchester parkways built in floodplainsWhen it floods, traffic cones and barricades have been used to facilitate parkway closures. But many drivers end up ignoring the warnings and proceed into danger.
The crossing arms being installed along some parkway entrances, like on the Bronx River Parkway, are part of a pilot project in Westchester.The arms are manually operated; road crews and first responders will have a code to unlock and lower them when necessary. 'So we're hoping with these barricades, it's a little bit more difficult to go around them. It's easier to see and they're quicker to deploy, and they're always at the ready,' De Almeida said.
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