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Exactly, Google for sure should have updated it but why had the city or even a concerned neighbor not put a fence or even a log or something there to block acce
by livefox 3y ago
Exactly, Google for sure should have updated it but why had the city or even a concerned neighbor not put a fence or even a log or something there to block access to the bridge? A sign and a temporary barrier would have saved lives here.
Hell non-locals might have driven off the thing without GPS help, depending on how the bridge looked from road-level
- avereveard 3y agoThe kind of person that plows trough bushes likely overlap with the kind that would remove the roadblock.
- whylo 3y agoApparently there were barricades but they'd been removed due to vandalism. No mention of how long they'd been missing though. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article279563759.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/...
- saalweachter 3y ago> But the barricades had been removed after being vandalized ... is this saying that, like, someone graffiti'd the concrete barriers in front of a collapsed bridge, and they took the barriers away leaving the collapsed bridge accessible? I'm trying to figure out how to parse this in a way that makes sense to do.
- bewaretheirs 3y agoIndeed. Slapping a coat of beige paint over the graffiti has got to be easier than moving them.
- saalweachter 3y agoThe older article, from 2022, says: > Even barricades that had previously warned drivers not to cross the bridge had been washed away, WCNC reported. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article279563759.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/...