(I have no idea what big penny means.)
This looks like they want this stat to increase. No warning colors or symbolic signs of danger. But they have a probd counter for their trap.
Iirc, this bridge has a ton of signs, signal lights, and indicators leading up to it- they’re just farther out, so you can actually turn away from it BEFORE you’re committed to going under it, or stopping dead in the street.
It’s probably the local name for the monster.
Drivers are going hit hit that bridge while trying to figure out wtf that sign means.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable for someone not super experienced in truck driving to assume the vehicle will be able to drive on most roads. I feel like there’s a lot of “Person blindsided by uncommon hazard gets laughed at” around.
That’s why bridges have the hight written on it.
I think it is resonable to expect someone to inform themselves about the hight of the vehicle, especially if they are not experienced in truck driving.
If you are not experienced and do not inform yourself that’s just careless.
Most of these places have numerous warnings to trucks to turn back. Anyone looking at several warnings and continuing on, or worse too distracted to notice, sorta deserves the chiding.
That bridge 11’ 8" that always gets posted, has an over height sensor that stops the light to red, a sign warning you that you are over height, hazard lights, and the height bar is in bright yellow. People still hit it regularly.
It’s also not unreasonable to expect responsibility from people who regularly handle vehicles of several tons to know how to drive.
America has this weird aversion to critcizing drivers.
I am not super experience in truck driving, but I think the reasonable (and rational) thing if I am driving a big truck, is to not take a chance and go under that if I don’t know how tall the truck is.
Boston has a whole road that is the physical manifestation of Chaos.
Storrow Drive. Runs along the Charles and is basically the northern border of the city. It has many underpasses, most of which are low enough to munch moving trucks. Every year around late Aug early Sept when college kids are moving in a few trucks get Storrow’d. It’s refered to as The Storrowing. It’s a fun time to need to get around the city.
Honestly Storrow is one of the scariest roads in New England, and I used to drive every day to and from work almost the entire length of Memorial which is on the opposite bank of the Charles which is a NARROW four lane road (2*2), with a speed limit that is both probably too high and completely ignored, on top of being almost eternally congested. How I didn’t see a horrible wreck every day confuses me still.
tl;Dr: Don’t drive in Boston unless your ready for some fun (I love the chaos)
Its even worse during Allston Xmas, the city in its infinite wisdom decided that most leases end on the same day. All the schools also have the new semester start right around the same time, and all the new students arrive within that few day window.
Lets paint this picture, the city is in panic mode as the student population makes up ~25% of the population of Boston, and they are all returning for the new semester. They likely have just moved as their old lease is up and their new one starts on the same day. They will take all of their worldly possessions and put them into the back of their friends sedan and drive to their new place, anything that wont fit is left on the curb. The previous tenant of the new place did the exact same thing. They put all the things they care for into their new place and decide which furniture from the previous tenant is good enough and put it back inside. Anything left on the curb by ~4 PM is fair game, and will be disposed of by the city next time the collect trash
The freshmen, whos parents are sending their spawn to MIT or BU have a u-haul (that they dont know the height of) carrying all their worldly possions, dispite their tiny dorm not having the room for it (and being told this repeatedly by the school). All it takes is one of these muppets to not pay attention and one of the major arteries into the city is blocked. Traffic will back up for miles, non-masshole drivers operating things that should require a CDL are trying to take short-cuts navigating the narrow boston city roads in small box trucks and every residential street will be a mass of double parked cars as the city collectivly shuffles the entire student population in a day.
Chaos is an understatement (its a lot of fun to watch).
Storrowed beer
(I have no idea what big penny means.)
It’s a reference to how expensive it will be to repair the trucks.
Bayswater Bridge RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayswater_SubwayRichest country in history cannot afford to maintain its infrastructure or healthcare for its citizenry.
Sure, but what does that have to do with this picture? The bridge looks deteriorated on that leading edge because 75 trucks have crashed into it at speed.
A city I used to live in had a bridge like this in a major inner-city commercial area just outside the CBD. Would cause havoc for commuters because the bridge was for the southern train lines entering the CBD and was on a busy road entering an major arterial.
All the traffic got held up and diverted, the trains couldn’t run until engineers inspected the bridge.
Yeah, I thought how frustrating that must be for the people who live there if that road is blocked time and time again because of the same thing.
Montague Street Bridge in Melbourne is 10 feet high.
Best bridge in the world
https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/
It’s been 10 days lol
I also like the Milwaukee Roundabout. No recent videos though, sadly. Gotta respect intersections that consistently pwn drivers.
If only there was a conveniently placed security camera nearby that could show us these accidents…
https://youtu.be/7pO39Sh6THg?si=BmOcfhOKk0jzjwxS
This video is really hilarious. Idk if it’s the same bridge or not. Also I know people on Lemmy don’t like links to YouTube but I don’t know how to do the thing.
That’s 11’8", probably the most famous can opener there is. Although they recently raised the bridge height to make it line up better or something, which resulted in it becoming 12’4". It’s still opens a few cans sometimes though.
Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s the same bridge. It’s kinda internet famous. They raised the bridge a little since that video, but it still peels the tops off of trucks.
I don’t think it is right? The environment looks completely different and the one in the post is 12", which the 11"8 (or now 12"4) never was.
Correct, this is not the same bridge
i think ive seen that place on youtube before
One would get the impression that truck drivers cant read
Its not usually “Truck drivers” its people who have rented a box truck.
