A need for separation

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

A recent study by the state’s Joint Transportation Committee ranked a city of Cheney railroad crossing among the top 50 crossings in Washington needing better separation between rail and vehicle traffic to improve safety, mobility and community impacts.

But if you think that crossing is Betz Road and State Route 904, where city officials are proposing moving the existing tracks, you’d be wrong.

That distinction belongs to the Cheney-Spangle Road crossing downtown, ranked 22 overall. As for the crossing at Cheney’s main northern entrance — it came in at 228 in a list of...