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At some point, you would think they would lower the road beneath the bridge.
by 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
At 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]