Crossings / Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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The federal crossing inventory lists 152 public at-grade crossings across the 12 Massachusetts cities with at least ten of them. Taunton has the most at 19.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates the most of them at 47, ahead of MASSACHUSETTS COASTAL RAILROAD, LLC at 39.
11% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 66% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Massachusetts city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taunton | Bristol | 19 | 79% | 0 | 2 |
| Beverly | Essex | 17 | 100% | 17 | 5 |
| Grafton | Worcester | 15 | 47% | 0 | 0 |
| Framingham | Middlesex | 13 | 54% | 0 | 1 |
| Lancaster | Worcester | 12 | 17% | 0 | 1 |
| Wilmington | Middlesex | 12 | 75% | 11 | 1 |
| Barnstable | Barnstable | 11 | 73% | 0 | 1 |
| Freetown | Bristol | 11 | 100% | 0 | 0 |
| Sandwich | Barnstable | 11 | 64% | 0 | 0 |
| Worcester | Worcester | 11 | 73% | 0 | 0 |
| Peabody | Essex | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | Berkshire | 10 | 100% | 0 | 1 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.