---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 220.11"
title: "49"
number: "220.11"
heading: "Requirements for roadway workers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/220.11"
---

# §220.11. Requirements for roadway workers.

- (a) On and after July 1, 1999, the following requirements apply to a railroad that has 400,000 or more annual employee work hours:
  - (1) Maintenance-of-way equipment operating without locomotive assistance between work locations shall have a working radio on at least one such unit in each multiple piece of maintenance-of-way equipment traveling together under the same movement authority. The operators of each additional piece of maintenance-of-way equipment shall have communications capability with each other.
  - (2) Each maintenance-of-way work group shall have intra-group communications capability upon arriving at a work site.
- (b) On and after July 1, 1999, each employee designated by the employer to provide on-track safety for a roadway work group or groups, and each lone worker, shall be provided, and where practicable, shall maintain immediate access to a working radio. When immediate access to a working radio is not available, the employee responsible for on-track safety or lone worker shall be equipped with a radio capable of monitoring transmissions from train movements in the vicinity. A railroad with fewer than 400,000 annual employee work hours may provide immediate access to working wireless communications as an alternative to a working radio.
- (c) **This section does not apply to—**
  - (1) Railroads which have fewer than 400,000 annual employee work hours, and which do not operate trains in excess of 25 miles per hour; or
  - (2) **Railroad operations where the work location of the roadway work group or lone worker—**
    - (i) Is physically inaccessible to trains; or
    - (ii) Has no through traffic or traffic on adjacent tracks during the period when roadway workers will be present.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20102-20103, 20103 note, 20107, 21301-21302, 20701-20703, 21304, 21311; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 63 FR 47195, Sept. 4, 1998, unless otherwise noted.