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A petition telling Indiana's congressional delegation that you, as a New Haven resident, support passage of the BUILD America 250 Act, the federal transportation package that includes the Railway Safety Act. This is federal legislation that funds safety and accountability improvements for rail communities like ours.

Senators Jim Banks and Todd Young, and Congressman Marlin Stutzman. After you sign, we'll write a personal message for you and show you all three offices. Each one receives constituent mail through its own secure web form, so you copy your message and paste it in. A message from a real constituent, in their own words, carries more weight than any form letter we could send for you.

No. It takes under a minute and simply adds your voice.

This is a community campaign of the City of New Haven in support of federal infrastructure legislation. It is not affiliated with any political party or candidate.

The legislation is before the Transportation Committee now. Congressional offices weigh constituent input most heavily before a vote. This is the window.

It can't, and neither can the state. Indiana's law limiting blocked crossings was struck down by the Indiana Supreme Court in 2018 as preempted by federal law, in a case involving Norfolk Southern citations right here in Allen County. Under federal law, only Congress can address how railroads operate. That's exactly why your signature matters.

Yes. NHTracks (nhtracks.org) is a community-powered, real-time crossing alert tool for New Haven, sponsored by Historic Broadway Inc.

Yes, there are two ways: directly to Norfolk Southern through their safety concern form, and to the Federal Railroad Administration through their blocked crossing reporting portal. Every report builds the federal record.

At the Broadway crossing, gates activate an average of 22 times per day. The average closure lasts under seven minutes; the longest on record ran nearly three hours.