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Crossings / Florida / Oakland Park

Oakland Park
Florida.

Public crossings13at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates100%0 with no active device
Under a whistle ban13as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents36Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 13 public at-grade railroad crossings in Oakland Park, FL, operated by 2 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Florida East Coast Railway Company operates 8 of the crossings here, 62% of the total, ahead of South Florida Regional Transportation Authority at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (13), intercity (13), shared use transit (7) and commuter (5).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Florida East Coast Railway Company862%
South Florida Regional Transportation Authority538%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Powerline Rd on South Florida Regional Transportation Authority is credited with 57 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 13 is 50. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.

The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 79 mph.

Warning devices

13 of the 13 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.

Horns and quiet zones

13 of the crossings (100%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.

Incident history

Form 57 records 36 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 7 deaths and 20 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • W Prospect Rd — 7 reported incidents
  • Powerline Rd — 5 reported incidents
  • W Oakland Park Blvd — 5 reported incidents
  • E Cypress Creek Rd — 4 reported incidents
  • E Commercial Blvd — 4 reported incidents

What this page is not

This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.

To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.

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