Video: Squeaky Wheels Finally get the Grease on Columbus Rail Crossings

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)  – It took city officials and constituents three years of complaints and public hearings–and now over a dozen railroad crossings are fixed.

Columbus Councilman Gene Taylor says the railroad crossings were in the worse shape they had ever been.

Taylor says many people driving over the tracks received flat tires, missing bumpers, and rims falling off.

Kansas City Southern Railroad fixed 13 railroad crossings in Columbus.

It was a $200,000.00 repair job that didn’t cost the city a dime. A fact that pleases Ward 1 City Councilman Gene Taylor

“We greatly appreciate how they came in a professional manner and redid the railroad crossings”.
Back in 2013 KCS proposed closing six of the railroad crossings. City officials and residents weren’t buying that idea because of traffic concerns.

Taylor says he will tackle a quiet zone ordinance next.