Metro-North secures $20 million grant for railroad safety improvements

WASHINGTON – Metro-North Railroad has been awarded a grant of $19.7 million through the U.S. Department of Transportation to support safety improvements to nine crossings along the Harlem Valley Line.
The project will upgrade or replace existing at-grand crossing warning systems and reconstruct the existing railroad crossings.
Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced the grant, said it is “critical that we upgrade our railroad crossings to prevent dangerous incidents and keep millions of New Yorkers safe.”

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