[AnAmericanMother]

The 4-gate European style crossings are becoming more and more popular.

They are harder to circumvent - you cannot enter after the gates are down unless you actually leave the roadway.

I used to live a block and a half from one, and people WOULD still try to squeeze through. You can't claim it happened due to inattention, though.

Downside is that they are outrageously expensive.

[Alberta's Child]

One of the advantages of the four-quadrant gates you describe is that under Federal Railroad Administration regulations, they are one of the key elements of a grade crossing where the trains aren’t required to sound their horns. Towns with a lot of late-night train activity are pushing them because they don’t like the horn noise.

[Olog-hai]

Most gated US crossings used to have four gates. They went away from that when they were fully automated.

I am partial to gates that move horizontally and close off the railroad to trespassers when open for road traffic, but I don’t know of any of this type that got automated; these were/are operated by manually turning a wheel in the signal tower. (This is in Clonsilla, in northern Dublin in Ireland.)

[themidnightskulker]

A shovel ready infrastructure project!!! Git R Done!