From May 20, relief for tenants. Regulation published

• Tenants of houses located near railway lines know that living in such buildings can be inconvenient. The silence is often broken by the loud honking of trains.
• This will change, however, because the Minister of Infrastructure, Dariusz Klimczak, signed an amendment to the regulation. The regulations were published on May 5 and will come into force on May 20.
• Drivers will no longer be required to activate a warning signal before crossings with barriers or sound and light signals.

The residents of houses located near railway lines know that living in such buildings can be inconvenient. Although many tracks have already been replaced and the characteristic clatter of train wheels has ceased to be heard, the silence is still often disturbed by loud honking . The piercing sound can be heard from a great distance away, and is worst at night.

Drivers use this to signal trains approaching level crossings and track crossings. But soon, many places will be much quieter , and residents living especially near level crossings will breathe a sigh of relief. The Ministry of Infrastructure is introducing a "quiet revolution" on the railways.

Before railway-road crossings secured with barriers or sound and light signals, drivers will no longer have to obligatorily give the Rp1 - Attention sound signal . This will significantly improve the comfort of life of all those who live near the crossings.

- inform PKP Polish Railway Lines.

On April 15, the Minister of Infrastructure, Dariusz Klimczak, signed an amendment to the regulation on the general conditions for conducting rail traffic and signaling. Thanks to this, it will be quieter.

The obligation to give the signal Rp 1 - Attention will remain only in the case of rail-road crossings and crossings that do not have such protection. The change is a response to numerous complaints and postulates of people living near rail-road crossings, who drew attention to the inconvenience associated with the use of this signal.

For example, only on the 470 km long route from Warsaw via Poznań to the western border of the country, the number of sound signals given by the driver will be reduced from the current 139 to 9.

- PKP PLK calculates.

The amendment also introduces important changes to railway regulations aimed at improving the capacity and functioning of lines and sidings, including in emergency situations. In addition, new solutions will serve to improve the daily functioning of rail carriers. These include:

• withdrawal of restrictions on shunting speeds with dangerous goods,
• increasing the speed of travel without knowing the route from 40 to 60 km/h for passenger trains in emergency situations,
• enabling the passenger train departure signals to be given also by the conductor (not only by the train manager, as is currently the case),
• enabling infrastructure managers to launch pilot projects for the new signalling system.

The new regulation was published in the Journal of Laws on May 5. The provisions will enter into force 14 days after its publication.