You’re driving through San Antonio’s East Side, rushing to get to a meeting or running an errand, when you turn down a street and see a railroad crossing.
The crossing arms start coming down and lights begin flashing, heralding an oncoming train, but before you have time to turn around, other drivers are lining up behind you. You’re stuck.
Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is championing what could a way out of that trap — a system that would alert residents by text message and email when trains are passing through their communities and clogging traffic at railroad crossings so they can take an alternative route…