Operation Lifesaver Canada bringing more awareness to communities across this week for Rail Safety Week. 'Look. Listen. Live.', is a community safety partnership program involving the installation of decals at railroad crossings.  

"Big, yellow, four feet by four feet decals with the words 'look, listen, live' and the silhouette of a train on them, and they're actually melted, they're thermal plastic and we have them melted to the pavement approaching crossings," said Operation Lifesaver National Director, Sarah Mayes.

Mayes said this is the second year they've launched these decals, with decals unveiled at eight rail crossings in Kamloops, BC on Monday. They have also been placed at crossings in New Westminster BC, Cambridge, ON, New Glasgow, NS, and St. John, NB.

Since Operation Lifesaver is a not-for-profit organization and therefore can't independently fund decals at every crossing in Canada, they partner with individual municipalities to help make them happen. Municipalities then determine where the decals can be most helpful.

"We have been partnering with municipalities to actually have these installed, and they've helped us identify crossings where they would be beneficial," she said.

Weyburn's own Sandra LaRose was in Kamloops for a Rail Safety Week event on Monday. 

"When [Sandra] saw the decals in Kamloops she said, 'oh these are fantastic'," shared Mayes. "I said 'well, if you've got connections with the City and you'd like some of these installed, let us know, I'd be happy to write a letter', and so I went back to my hotel room and banged out a letter for her, so those are in the mail now."

She said she also put a letter in the mail to the City of Regina.

"To their Mayor, and also to the Mayor of Weyburn, to see whether or not we could work together to have some of them installed at crossings in those communities," Mayes noted.

She shared some rail crossing tips:

"Reduce distractions as you're approaching the crossing, look in both directions," she said.

She said in the case of a double track, make no assumptions.

"If there's a train that has moved through the crossing, don't proceed immediately, because there could be a second one coming in the opposite direction," she cautioned.

"So we always say stop, look in both directions and listen for oncoming trains before moving through a crossing," concluded Mayes.

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