Railroad, Sallisaw spar over crossings at hearing
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Tuesday, October 26th 1999, 12:00 am
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News On 6
Kansas City Southern Railway and the city of Sallisaw are fighting over the tracks.
The railroad is asking the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to let its trains block one crossing at a time in Sallisaw for up to an hour.
The city has complained that the railroad already is violating a ten-minute limit. And its opposing a possible compromise to allow a
one-hour variance at one crossing at a time.
An administrative law judge heard arguments today on the issue.
A recommendation is expected to be issued to the commission in about a month.
Kansas City Southern has already paid almost three-thousand dollars to settle commission allegations that it illegally blocked crossings Sallisaw streets 51 times last year.
