                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CROSSING OF A RAILROAD OR PUBLIC HIGHWAY BY ANOTHER RAILROAD; CROSSING OF A
RAILROAD BY A PUBLIC HIGHWAY (§ 56-363)

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Commonwealth that all crossings of
one railroad by another, or a public highway by a railroad, or a railroad by a
public highway, shall, wherever reasonably practicable, pass above or below the
existing facility. And every railroad hereafter constructed across another
railroad or across a public highway, and every public highway hereafter
constructed across a railroad, shall, wherever it is reasonably practicable, and
does not involve an unreasonable expense, all the circumstances of the case
considered, pass above or beneath the existing structure at a sufficient
elevation or depression, as the case may be, with easy grades, so as to admit of
safe speedy travel over each.
		If constructing a crossing either above or below the existing structure is not
practical and involves an unreasonable expense, the responsible governing body
constructing a new public crossing at grade, in accordance with the laws of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, shall take precautions to provide for the safe
movement of traffic. It is the policy of the Commonwealth to limit the number of
new public at grade crossings and to eliminate unnecessary crossings.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3972; 1996, cc. 114, 157.