In the City of Danville, train traffic divides the community and causes roadway user backups, slower emergency response times, fatalities and discourages the use of non-motorized transportation at five at-grade crossings on Bowman Avenue, Voorhees Street and Main Street. To alleviate these quality-of-life challenges, City staff is proposing to determine if either a series of grade separations, rail consolidation, or some combination of the two alternatives would be a project that could be funded through large US DOT grant programs that require benefit-cost ratios greater than 1.0. This study will complete enough data analysis to produce the benefitcost analysis and determine if a given alternative would be more acceptable to stakeholders.
