(I have no idea what big penny means.)
One would get the impression that truck drivers cant read
Its not usually “Truck drivers” its people who have rented a box truck.
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.
You don’t see the big ol flashing hazard lights directly below the googly eyes?
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.
The bridge is on S Pennsylvania Ave in Lansing, MI, hence “Penny”. Construction has routed more people through there than normal lately increasing the bridge’s hunger.
If there’s one thing people that rent trucks or RVs never learn, it’s the height of their vehicle (and that yes the flashing overheight lights are in fact for you).
Source: Used to live near there.
Oh shit, I posted a separate comment before I read yours – this is my bridge! Oo
Thanks!
…increasing the bridge’s hunger.
They’ll follow Google maps anywhere blindly. Rational thinking is turned off.
That’s how people drove into a lake, under a train, het themselves stuck in too narrow streets, arrive on the wrong country and so on.
This bridge has been stupid low for decades, and it’s a main artery from downtown to the (e hospital and) highway. As of the last time I drove past it, the advance warnings signs didn’t seem adequate to me.
it’s important to know your motorhome’s height, how else are you supposed to get drive-thru food?
It’s probably the local name for the monster.
I love how gnarly the underside of the bridge is. Everyone thinks they’re the exception.
The problem is using feet to measure it. Whose feet? What size? Shoed or bare? So many possibilities involving feet, there’s no real way of crossing under this safely.
Big Penny’s feet, obviously.
So what’s the signage before trucks can no longer turn around?
It does seem more effective to place some other form of markers like metal poles down up higher with bells hanging on fishing line or some shit, if you hit the bells, you’d hit the bridge. Place the 50 yards before the bridge
That’s how it’s done in my country. If you hear the dangly bits scraping on the roof of your truck, you won’t fit.
I also like the Milwaukee Roundabout. No recent videos though, sadly. Gotta respect intersections that consistently pwn drivers.
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
If only there was a conveniently placed security camera nearby that could show us these accidents…
There’s a bridge near me with scuff marks on the underside like that. I’ve driven under and briefly wondered about the stories behind each one, and now your post makes me want to investigate further.
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.
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
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.
We’ve got one of those in my town. The height is only 10’ 8", and the road makes a V going under the tracks. Long wheelbase trucks might make it through until the front wheels start going up the hill on the other side.
There’s a train bridge like that in my hometown, but it’s directly over the base of a fairly steep hill. Pretty much anything bigger than a work van is likely to hit it, and I’ve seen a couple of box trucks with the top 6 inches or so of their roof peeled back like a half-open can of sardines.
That bridge needs more 11’8"
I read the site but couldn’t find why the sign says 12’4 if it’s really 11’8"?
They raised the bridge a handful of years back due to all the crashes.
Didn’t stop the crashes.
IIRC, they didn’t raise it because of the crashes. It’s a privately owned rail line and they don’t care about that because the bridge itself wasn’t being damaged. It needed to be renovated anyway so they raised it to be level with the nearby at-grade crossing while they were at it.
Yeah the bridge itself wasn’t being damaged because they installed a goddamn I-beam in front of it as a crash barrier.
They actually raised it back in 2019.
http://11foot8.com/raising-11foot8/
It didn’t help much, obviously.
It was sadly raised due to the high number of crashes
Probably would have helped more to lower the bridge even more 🤣
They won’t because there is an old sewer main that runs underneath and according to the town is prohibitively expensive to reconcile all of that with the bridge lowering.
The rail line won’t increase the height anymore because then it will cause a hump in the train tracks there.
