Railroad Crossing Repairs Expected Over 4 Days In Westfield

WESTFIELD, NJ — Repairs by Conrail of the Rahway Avenue railroad crossing are expected to begin next week.

Work is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Tuesday, April 21, and continue until 5 a.m. Saturday, April 25 to replace the railroad crossing and approaches.

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Rahway Avenue is scheduled to be closed between Lamberts Mill Road and Woodcrest Drive/Terminal Avenue and detoured in both directions.

Access to local businesses will be maintained, according to the New Jersey Department of Transportation(NJDOT).

Access to Sid Fay/Houlihan field will continue to be available through Lamberts Mill Road, according to Westfield.

The following detours will be in place:

Rahway Avenue eastbound Detour:

• Motorists on Rahway Avenue eastbound will be directed to turn left onto Clifton Street
• Turn right onto Central Avenue
• Turn right onto Terminal Avenue, back to Rahway Avenue/Westfield Avenue

Rahway Avenue westbound Detour:

• Motorists on Westfield Avenue westbound, which becomes Rahway Avenue, will be directed to turn right onto Terminal Avenue
• Turn left onto Central Avenue
• Turn left onto Clifton Street, back to Rahway Avenue

"In order to provide safer and smoother railroad crossing, the existing crossing will be replaced with new concrete crossings and asphalt approaches," according to the NJDOT.

This federally funded project is included within NJDOT’s railroad grade-crossing safety program, which repairs, upgrades, or removes around 50 crossings each year, statewide.

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