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Golfcoarse Drive Smart Train Crossing Views Are Blocked by Trees

Only 1 Arrow Sign Installed on Fences, and a Yellow Sign In The Concrete, but you can't see the ONCOMING TRAINS IN ALL DIRECTIONS!

It’s plane to see none of you have been out to the site, and if you have been, you are Blind. You have one arrow sign and one Yellow Sign in the Sidewalks. If you look to see if a Train is coming, you can’t see if it’s coming because of all the Views being blocked. And No Crossing Arms with lights on the opposite direction of Car Traffic. So it’s not as noticeable to the pediatricians on the opposite side of the road.
You just don’t understand that where you have your look signs and watch signs in the sidewalk you cannot see the trains coming. There are trees in the way and lower branches of multiple trees over on the apartment side in the way. And the big tall pine trees in the small trees at the park-and-ride have branches in the way so you cannot see the train coming and you have no signs anywhere except the one look arrow sign.
And the Fence on the Apartment side of the Crossing makes the people walking and biking to look away from the Oncoming Southbound Trains coming from the Overpass direction. If they follow the Arrows Directions you look South and West, instead of North and South to see the oncoming trains.
No Real Warning signs on any of the Directions, and it’s worse on the Non-Traffic directions. No Flashing lights on the Off Directions either. The crossing arms don’t slow down people from the off direction.
ROBERTS ROAD IS THE ONLY WAY FOR PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLIST, HOMELESS, TO GET TO RP FROM SR, AND THEY ALL GO THE SHORTEST DIRECTION THRU THE PARK AND RIDE! NO SIGNS THERE!
This is the last thing they see when coming from Santa Rosa. They cut across the Park And Ride Lot because it’s the Shortest Distance to get to the Walmart Shopping Center. Roberts Road is the only Street connecting the Two Cities. The Signs And Fences don’t do a thing for these people. So easy to see if you put yourself in their shoes.

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