Your letters to the editor for Sept. 21, 2025:

Rail safety starts with awareness — especially for our students

Each school day, thousands of Sioux Falls students walk, bike, ride, or drive across railroad tracks to get to school. These crossings are part of our daily landscape, but we must never take them for granted.

This week marks Rail Safety Week, a national effort to raise awareness about safe practices around trains and tracks. As an educator and school district leader, I believe we have a shared responsibility to ensure that students, parents, teachers, and school bus drivers know how to navigate crossings safely and stay alert around railroad infrastructure.

With support from the U.S. Department of Transportation, our region is already taking steps to improve crossing safety. I

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