Elizabeth Railroad Crossing: UPDATE
On approximately Dec 7, 2010 a crew of railroad worker showed up at the Elizabeth Road crossing, I had high hopes of a quality repair being made, HA! With traffic in both directions blocked off the workers pulled out the loose boards and then they filled the potholes and the gaps where the boards had been with large broken rocks. I couldn’t believe this was the actual repair and was happy to see them return two days later to remove some of the rocks and plopped some bags of temporary patch (asphalt) into the holes. This seemed pretty good though I wondered how long it would last. After about three days most of the fill had pounded out and the crossing was about as bad as it was originally, minus the loose boards.
By Feb. 7, 2011 enough of the remaining road and fill had been pounded out around the tracks for the crew to return and plop a few more bags of temporary patch into the holes. This too lasted a few days. Now again drivers have to slow almost to a crawl and/or swerve around trying to find a path across the tracks that they hope won’t feel like their car suspension isn’t being ripped out and the frame being bent or broken.
It’s interesting to note that the crossing at Hall Rd. on the north end of Mt. Clemens in Clinton Twp. is smooth; the crossing on the south end of Mt. Clemens on Groesbeck in Clinton Twp. is smooth and was always terrible until the Clinton Twp. Police move in just down the street, and the crossing by The Hospital on Harrington is smooth. But the Church Street, Hubbard and Elizabeth crossings all in Mt. Clemens just have to be probably in some of the worst condition of any crossings in the state.
THANK YOU!

I agree, although I believe Hubbard is getting worse. there is a least a 3 to 6 inch drop from pavement and it makes for a very bumpy ride. thanks

Yes the crossing at Hubbard has been brought up in these posts blog and in (#35002 Railroad tracks extremely bumpy) as has Church Street. Years ago Hubbard was repair and was very nice but since then it seems as though the materials used have somehow sagged becoming very bumpy.

The Elizabeth crossing received two plop and fill, "Temporary", repairs a few weeks ago. This was pretty good for a while though you still had to kind of find the best route to cross. Now it's starting to get axial breaking again.

Seems like the Clem for some reason is low on Canadian National Railroads priority list. Maybe as the Northamerican Union and the Transamerican Highway diminish national sovereignty identification Canadian National will feel more inclined to take better care of these crossings.

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There's another problem just east of the tracks on Elizabeth that looks like it might be getting some attention AGAIN as there's those two slabs of concrete that are sinking again. There's the sink hole under the concrete in front of 215 Elizabeth. That part of the road has been repaired three or four times since the mid seventies. The dirt under the concrete keeps eroding away because the sewer under the road has a large gap where a smaller pipe expands into a larger pipe. These pipes are never repaired! The city just comes out breaks up the two section of the road throws some more dirt in the hole and pours in the new concrete. This works OK for a few years, well at least it's good enough until it can become a problem for the next guy who's responsibility it becomes.

Thank You!
Alex Macomb

I lost a tire and rim because of a pot hole. I was told by the road commission that when a pothole is reported that if it is not fixed in 30 days the state will pay for it. How many more people have to suffer financial losses (300.00) because of this. There should be a sign put up that says dangerous road. They put up signs for road construction workers that if you hit a worker you go to prison and get a 10,000.00 fine, what about the regular people that could loose there lives by having their car go out of control going over this dangerous railroad crossing. Who is going to pay for my loss, the road commission?

Sandy

I just received an email from ClickFix asking if this issue has been fixed. WELL, It Has NOT! Last Dec. (2010) some temporary fix was plopped into the potholes were the loose board were taken out about a month before. The fill has pretty much disappeared making the crossing of these tracks very bumpy, jarring ride. I guess holding up the traffic at these intersections for prolonged times isn't good, we have to tear-up our vehicles too.

Well while building another unneeded bridge over the Detroit River to comply with someones euphoric vision for the NAFTA International Highway is probably taking presidents over Mount Clemens need for better RR crossings.

THANK YOU, CANADIAN NATIONAL ---- - - NOT!

I was told by the road commision that when a problem is reported that it must be fixed within 30 days and it was reported 7 months ago. I work at the Verkuilen building and every day that I cross these tracks I am afraid that I am going to get stuck. It is getting worse and worse. If this is the tracks where the older couple was killed, maybe they got stuck on the tracks on Elizabeth road.

This railroad crossing is under the jurisdiction of CN RR, not the Department of Roads. You need to contact CN RR directly at 248-452-4787. Additionally, Elizabeth is a city street under Mount Clemens jurisdiction. CN informed the City and the County that this crossing was scheduled for repair last year, but evidently were not able to complete this work. They have said it is again on their schedule for this year.

Thank you Anon for this info...I have left a message at that number for someone to call me

September 23,2011
Today, after 5 days of repair work being done on this RR intersection at Elizabeth Road,

ALAS, IT IS REPAIRED!

Now when crossing these tracks it is now so smooth you can hardly tell it.

THANK YOU Canadian National and Grand Trunk Western

CN RR will be repairing Hubbard and Church crossings week of September 26th, so both of those streets will have detours around the RR for a week.

Elizabeth Rd, Hubbard and Church st. are repaired.

Mission accomplished!

Thank You, once again to all who made this possible, finally.