Barriers to rise along Delray railway tracks

Action prompted after woman killed by train while trying to cross.

DELRAY BEACH — It will soon be tougher to dart across the railroad tracks north of the pedestrian crossing in downtown Delray Beach after a woman killed crossing those tracks prompted the city to push for barriers along the railway.

Robin Brelsford Landes, 62, was struck by a train and killed while crossing the Florida East Coast Railway tracks just north of Atlantic Avenue in early August. Her husband, William Francis Landes, 58, saw the train crash, and died of natural causes the next day.

Following the incident, city officials met with representatives of FEC, as well as All Aboard Florida, which is planning to run a high-speed train service through the area next year.

“The meeting was very productive,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said. He hopes to have barriers in place within one year, “before the first (high-speed) train rolls through the city,” he said.

FEC, which owns a portion of land surrounding the tracks, was open to the idea of placing barri-