{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-220.11","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 220.11","heading":"Requirements for roadway workers.","body":"(a) On and after July 1, 1999, the following requirements apply to a railroad that has 400,000 or more annual employee work hours:\n(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.\n(2) Each maintenance-of-way work group shall have intra-group communications capability upon arriving at a work site.\n(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.\n(c) This section does not apply to:\n(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\n(2) Railroad operations where the work location of the roadway work group or lone worker:\n(i) Is physically inaccessible to trains; or\n(ii) Has no through traffic or traffic on adjacent tracks during the period when roadway workers will be present.","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation","CHAPTER II—FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","PART 220—RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS","Subpart A—General"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"73be209961383de04efdc4589318d12f6b0c5a7455159c302843130f48218d82","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-220.9","next":"us/49-cfr-220.13"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}