FORT LAUDERDALE — Imagine not having to stop at the railroad tracks when a train rolls by, whether you’re in your car, on a bike or on foot.

It could happen if an underpass was built at five major railroad crossings that run through downtown Fort Lauderdale: Sunrise, Broward, Davie and Sistrunk boulevards and Andrews Avenue.

Transportation planners are studying the possibility.

The plan, if it works, would not only ease gridlock but save lives, said Greg Stuart, executive director of the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization.

An underpass would help create a safe barrier between drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians and the freight trains and Brightline commuter trains that travel through town on the Florida East Coast Railway tracks, Stuart told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

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