Excerpt from Amendments to Public Utilities Act, 1917
The commission shall also have power upon its own motion or upon complaint and after hearing as hereinbefore provided, (of which all the parties in interest including the owners of adjacent property shall have due notice) to order any crossing aforesaid now existing or hereafter constructed at grade or at the same ordifferent levels to be re-located or altered or to be abolished accord ing to plans and specifications to be approved and upon just and reasonable terms and conditions to be prescribed by the commis sion, and to prescribe the terms upon which the separation should be made, and the proportion in which the expense of the alteration or abolition of the crossing, or the separation of the grade, should be divided between the railroad or street railway corporation affected or between the corporation or corporations and the state, county, municipality or public authority in interest.