About 600 ticketed Friday for illegally crossing tracks

Authorities issued a whopping 600 citations to pedestrians and motorists Friday morning during a clamp down of illegal train track crossing along Metro and Metrolink tracks.

Despite ringing bells and flashing lights, some people cross the tracks when trains are coming, said Jose Ubaldo, Metro spokesman.

"People think it's a game," he said.

It all happened along tracks for the Blue Line and Union Pacific trains that run parallel from downtown Los Angeles to around Metro's Rosa Parks Station in Wilmington, a transfer point between the Blue and Green lines.

Tickets for each offence costs $177 and were issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Union Pacific Police Department and Metro security staff, Ubaldo said.