This week, the federal rail authority (FRA) issued a finding removing the quiet zone designations along the rail road tracks between Ogden and Provo. By law, the FRA requires trains to sound their horns at all road crossings, unless sufficient safety measures (signs, paint, concrete medians etc) are in place at each crossing to qualify for a quiet zone. If a quiet zone designation is approved, the safety measures are deemed sufficient enough to prohibit the use of the horns at the crossings.
Kaysville is located within the “Woods Cross” quiet zone (established in 2008), which stretches from Ogden to Salt Lake, and last spring the FRA started working with all of the Cities in the zone to evaluate their crossings, identify deficiencies and provide a timeline to correct any deficiencies. The FRA inspections found that several dozen crossings in this zone had deficiencies that must be remedied to keep the quiet zone designation. All of the deficiencies were corrected except for 4, none of which are in Kaysville. While the sole crossing in Kaysville (Old Mill Ln) is compliant, because there are non-compliant crossings within our same zone, the FRA will require the train horns to be used at all crossings until the remaining deficiencies are addressed. The City is currently working with other Cities to evaluate options to best restore this as quickly as possible, but we don’t know how quickly that will happen and we apologize for the inconvenience and impact while this is being resolved.