Dhaka, Jan. 18 -- Can the country's unsafe level crossings be made reasonably safe for pedestrians and vehicles using those and the trains running on railway tracks? If the latest initiatives taken jointly by the Bangladesh Railway (BR), the Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) and road transport and bridges department take practical shapes, accidents and fatalities at level crossings --both authorised and unauthorised -- may drastically come down. Of the 2,561 level crossings in the country, 1,149 are unauthorised and of the 1,412 authorised, 964 are unmanned. It is surprising that the serious types of accidents like the one at Joypurhat level crossing in which 12 people were killed and several others injured last month do not o...