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It's as if the city council decided to drive right into their own bridge[1] and now we get to watch the chaos unfolding all the same. [1] http://11foot8.com/ h
by kotaKat 3y ago
It's as if the city council decided to drive right into their own bridge[1] and now we get to watch the chaos unfolding all the same.
[1] http://11foot8.com/ http://11foot8.com/
- pityJuke 3y agoCompletely unrelated to the parent topic: oh my god, they added warning signs on top of 11"8+8, and people are still messing up? EDIT: Nope, my memory is bad, the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" sign was always there.
- threesevenths 3y agoHaven’t the warning signs always been there, even when it really was 11’ 8”?
- pityJuke 3y agoYou're right, woops. Memory is a fickle mistress.
- suierklepye 3y agoYes the warnings have been there all along not a surprise its happening
- mike_hock 3y agoThe bridge is fucking world-famous and they still manage to mess up.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThey've put up extra height bars and they've added a blinking light using a sensor for warning overheight trucks (OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN) which shows to an extra long red light. I also believe they've lowered the road a little bit, but there's only so much they can do. People still crash into it, somehow.
- kiba 3y agoIt's called inattentional blindness. People not only see with their eyes, but with their mind. That's why you might see cyclists with blinking taillight, or even lights in the daytime.
- concinds 3y agoYeah. I think that sign would be more effective if both lines were swapped: "Must Turn, Overheight" rather than Overheight Must Turn". It sounds like a generic warning, I bet these truck drivers don't think it's specifically about them.
- Clamchop 3y agoPays to be imperative: TURN NOW. Needs more bright red blinkenlight, too.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThe sign that warns driver does actually blink though, for this exact reason. I believe there's a separate electronic sign further up the road as well that flicks on when a vehicle triggers the sensor. Even without all that, an educated driver should just see the sign on the tunnel and determine their truck doesn't fit... Funnily enough, blinking taillights are actually banned here because it's very difficult to guage distance and speed from a blinking tail light.
- kiba 3y agoThat's why you have a blinking taillight and a continuous light.
- JohnFen 3y ago> I also believe they've lowered the road a little bit I don't remember that, but I do remember that they raised the height of the railroad bridge, to the greatest degree that was possible.
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago"OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" is almost comical in it's dangerous ambiguity. My first parse is "if you were over height, you would have to turn", not "you, yes, you! Stop! Now!". I'd take a bet that the person who choose that wording wanted the accidents to continue but also have plausible deniability because they did do "something".
- xypage 3y agoThat is exactly what it means though, they don't want everyone to stop just overheight vehicles. What do you want the sign to do? Encourage everyone to stop?
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt has a sensor and only goes off for overheight vehicles. If you see it come up, you will hit the bridge if you continue straight, but it's worded too like a generic warning to all vehicles: which is the parse you have also apparently made. Better wording would be "Overheight! Do not proceed under bridge!". If you have space: "you are overheight!" or "overheight vehicle detected!" Add the number plate with an ANPR camera for bonus "this means you" (it also triggers a red light phase whenever it sees an over-height vehicle, so you will have time to read it). And yes, this is possible, I've seen supermarkets flash your number plate at you as you enter to warn you the parking times are being recorded.
- xypage 3y agoI see what you mean, you're probably right that it would help, but honestly I just don't think the people hitting it are reading it in the first place. It doesn't light up until they're at the intersection, at which point they're either very focused on the light or the traffic, and definitely not looking way above even the yellow bar. Most people seem to be driving rentals, and in their case they're just not thinking about the size of their vehicle, and the rest have gone under a thousand bridges that look to the unfocused eye just as tall, so they're not worried about it at all. What they really need is probably just something that hangs at that height in front of it so you can hear it bang off of your car with minimal damage before you actually hit the bridge, and push the intersection further away from the bridge so there's more time to look at the signs.
- joshstrange 3y agoIt always amazes me that truck rentals like we see in a few videos on that site are legal, like with a normal license. Every time I’ve rented one all I can think of “I can’t believe they trusted me with this thing that I drive once every few years at best”. I guess they don’t care, they have insurance but still. Whenever I see someone else diving one of these I give them a very wide berth and assume they have no idea what they are doing since they normally don’t.
- stronglikedan 3y agoI once reserved a 20 footer, and at the last minute they called me and asked me if I would take a 26 footer instead. Man, I didn't know what I was getting into. That is a whole different beast than the standard 20 footer. Never again - what a pain in the ass that was - every aspect of it was a hassle. The whole time I was wondering how the hell it was legal for me to be driving that thing around.
- wil421 3y ago26 footers are terrible. I’ll gladly tow a massive trailer and it’s much easier to position a trailer. In fact it’s easier with longer trailers over something like a jet ski trailer. A roommate in college worked for Lowe’s installing appliances off a 26 footer. He crashed into things and cars once a month. After 9 times they said don’t get a 10th, luckily he changed jobs.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoSame, I got the Big One when I was moving out of SF. Driving that monster around town (and parking right on lower Haight where my apartment was) is not something I would ever willingly do again.
- dekhn 3y agois that the one with "grandma's attic"? I have never driven a truck with a (manual) transmission that was older than me until I drove one. I manage to parallel park it near the panhandle in a two-car space. I was proud (still am!)
- stronglikedan 3y agoMy current favorite. Feel resistance? Keep going! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LK5RzZDJoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LK5RzZDJoQ
- bombcar 3y agoI mean 99%+ of the vehicle got through fine! That's perfectly within the SLA.
- saganus 3y agoTwo things I was not expecting from this video: - the amount of people that just keeps going at _full speed_ (even after violent shaking and noise) - how much it would make me laugh. For some reason the absurdity of it all just cracked me up
- MetaMalone 3y agoSo fkn funny. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7pO39Sh6THg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7pO39Sh6THg
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoAt some point, you would think they would lower the road beneath the bridge.
- tialaramex 3y agoThe road there is stuck. Raising the railway, which has been done once already, is very expensive. Lowering the road would require moving a sewer main, which is a fairly delicate and also expensive job. Both railway and sewer are very old and substantially pre-date the modern assumption that you can just drive trucks wherever you want as if that's some basic element of civilisation rather than a weird temporary glitch.
- opwieurposiu 3y agoApparently there is a gravity-flow sewer underneath the road, making it very difficult to go any lower.
- mschuster91 3y agoAt some point it becomes cheaper to install a lift pump and a pressurized section for the sewage than to constantly have crashes to clean up and disrupt service.
- greatfilter251 3y ago[dead]
- bratgpttamer 3y agoReminds me of one of my favorite headlines: "Teacher says every time a truck storrows, an overpass gets a trophy" (storrowed = putting a 12'6" truck under a 10'6" bridge) [1] https://www.universalhub.com/2019/teacher-says-every-time-truck-storrows-overpass https://www.universalhub.com/2019/teacher-says-every-time-tr... [2] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=storrowed https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=storrowed
- dtgriscom 3y agoAh, yes. September is coming, and with it the "DON'T TAKE TRUCKS ONTO STORROW DRIVE" signs land on every major road entering BOSTON.
- shove 3y agoHell yeah, nice local reference
- lysp 3y agoAustralia has their own - Montague Street Bridge ("Monty"). It's 9'11 (3.0m) https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/ https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/ It has dozens of warning signs, an overhead gantry with rubber paddles that hit a high vehicle's roof, flashing lights and still gets hit approximately once a month.