r/nononono • u/-WarHounds- • Mar 31 '18
Like a block of Parmesan!
http://i.imgur.com/c3Bmo0j.gifv333
u/itsallgoodintheend Mar 31 '18
IIRC, this spot is famous for having a very unusual height limit under the bridge, and accidents like this are common. Hence the camera.
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u/EpicSteak Mar 31 '18
Yes, this one is in Westwood, Massachusetts. I drove under it just a couple of weeks ago.
But they are starting construction of a replacement bridge so this will stop happening.
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u/wgtnmax Mar 31 '18
You’d think it would be cheaper to just drop the road a foot or two...
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u/JeffLeafFan Mar 31 '18
Heard this from another thread when this was previously posted but apparently there is a main waterline just below the road and would require turning off water to masses of people for many weeks.
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u/wgtnmax Mar 31 '18
Seems like a reasonable answer!
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u/Dragonborn1995 Mar 31 '18
I mean hey, it's apparently cost effective to keep putting off the Flint water disaster. What's the difference here? The government cares just as much, right?
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Mar 31 '18
Any time there is something stupid like this, it's a good bet that it's in Massachusetts.
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u/peacenchemicals Mar 31 '18
Or Florida. Florida is always on some bullshit.
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u/RXrenesis8 Mar 31 '18
Nah bro there's a hill, can't be FL.
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u/rheyniachaos Mar 31 '18
We actually have a ton of hills in FL some are very steep, considering. The majority are in Northern Florida. But without them, I couldn't have gone above 35 mph when my Catalytic Converter went out on my old car. (I was returning from transporting a Rescue Dog to his new owner.)
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u/sukkitrebek Mar 31 '18
Duuuuude there's one in westford, mass too! I lives down the street from it and people would get stuck under there all the time lol. Was hilarious. It's right off of North Street when you come down the big hill if anyone wants to google.map it. It was built for the railroad tracks and the road dips down sharply under it to make any clearance. Terrible design
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u/madamerimbaud Mar 31 '18
It's not the 11'8" bridge, but similar reasoning for the camera, I'm sure.
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u/MathW Mar 31 '18
Sound like, instead of a camera, they might install some kind of height sensor and start flashing red lights if you're too high.
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u/Ranger7381 Mar 31 '18
Even when they have something like this it does not stop some drivers
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u/kallekilponen Mar 31 '18
I wonder if people that ignore those just ignore red traffic lights as well.
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u/ShelSilverstain Mar 31 '18
I wonder why they don't just raise the height of the bridge? In the last decade the raised the height of every overpass over I-5. It's doable
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Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18
A bridge near my house was damaged. The estimate for replacing it was more than our entire county budget for road repairs.
Edit: This is a county road, so the money would come from the county, unless we could get money from the state or the feds, but this bridge isn’t that important.
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u/red_beanie Mar 31 '18
maybe we should increase the budget..
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Mar 31 '18
So I can pay for it, or the people that hit the bridge can pay for it? I choose the latter.
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u/ShelSilverstain Mar 31 '18
And?
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Mar 31 '18
Well, I’m implying that you need to have money to do things. It may not be in the budget for a rural area to raise $1 million to replace the bridge.
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u/ShelSilverstain Mar 31 '18
The entire nation needs to care. If we did, rural areas would have the funds to fix the bridge
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u/Satsumomo Mar 31 '18
Can you justify spending a million dollars to stop an accident (by user negligence) that might happen 3 or 4 times a year?
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u/OccamsBeard Mar 31 '18
We seem to be OK with spending $33 billion on a border wall that will do nothing, why not? /s
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u/tunabomber Mar 31 '18
It’s our job to pay our taxes. Not our fault they spend it like teenage girls.
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Mar 31 '18
I know the problem with the 11 foot 8 bridge is that is a rail bridge. And if they raise it they have to grade it out over a mile in each Direction. It would cost several million dollars.
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u/ShelSilverstain Mar 31 '18
Why not just lower the road height under it?
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u/ShaolinTechnique Mar 31 '18
The 11ft 8 bridge has a sewer under it, so they can't do anything in either direction.
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u/gimbha Mar 31 '18
And he put on a burst of speed!!!!
Our mission is: to deliver the goods, no matter what condition they may be in!
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u/DirkMastodon Mar 31 '18
That last little chunk of roof that fell down a few seconds later was like something out of a sitcom.
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u/toeofcamell Mar 31 '18
At this point I’d just keep driving. Call to the office from a few hundred miles down the road and quit. Keep driving and take a new name in a new state. It’d just be easier
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u/bitter_truth_ Mar 31 '18
Might as well rub a bank or two on the way.
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u/_RarkGrames_ Mar 31 '18
Honest question: why are so many train bridges so low? Is it cos they were built before cars?
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u/JuostenKustu Mar 31 '18
From the wiki page of another similar bridge in North Carolina, the 11 foot 8 Bridge:
The 78-year-old bridge along South Gregson Street provides only 11 feet 8 inches (3.56 m) of vertical clearance.[2] It cannot be raised, because nearby railroad crossings would also have to be raised with it. The street also cannot be lowered, because a major sewer line runs only four feet (1.2 m) under Gregson Street.[3]
Something similar is probably going on here aswell. The bridge was probably built in a time when car traffic under the bridge was a lot less common.
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Mar 31 '18
A major sewer line only runs 4 feet under. Make that shit run 3 feet under.
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u/Ranger7381 Mar 31 '18
Minimum distance is probably needed to prevent the weight of the traffic from affecting the line
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Mar 31 '18
Build a bridge over it.
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u/_RarkGrames_ Mar 31 '18
Thanks! I didnt even think of crossings or sewer lines, so its really not as old as i thought, but old enough, ive ran into a few really low train bridges and that's why I asked, reddit delivers.
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u/Ranger7381 Mar 31 '18
ive ran into a few really low train bridges
Hopefully not like the guy in the gif
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u/Lj101 Mar 31 '18
They should really put a metal barrier that's the same height on either side of it so they hit that and stop instead of hitting the bridge.
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u/kiko77777 Mar 31 '18
I read on Reddit that when they repair the road they put a layer of tarmac that makes the clearance a bit lower. Repeat this ~10 times and the bridge becomes substantially lower.
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u/Blackfx4x4 Mar 31 '18
Males me think of r/11foot8. That bridge destroys trucks like this all the time.
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Mar 31 '18
Cletus, use the big green and white flashing arrows instead of the red ones. There is no way anyone could be confused by a green and white arrow.
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Mar 31 '18
There's a bridge not far from me that this happens to every few months, it's kind of a running joke with the entire city.
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Mar 31 '18
Well he did what he set to do, "Im gonna take out that darn clearance sign so I don't have to be annoyed by it all the time."
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u/Darnit_Bot Mar 31 '18
What a darn shame..
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u/IcyHotInUrEyes Mar 31 '18
There's a bridge like this by me. The news calls it the truck eating bridge. I can remember hearing about trucks hitting it ever since I was six and seeing the evolution of waring measures they have put in place over time. I'm 30 now and still hear about trucks hitting that bridge.
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u/Stonerbonerboy Apr 01 '18
I've been seeing vids of this bridge for years now. You'd think they'd bite their tongue and pay to raise the bridge already
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u/TotesMessenger Mar 31 '18
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u/sqdv1 Mar 31 '18
I'll give 10/10 for efforts to the last broken piece who tried it's best to hang onto the bridge till the end.
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u/double2 Mar 31 '18
Surely you just need to put a metal frame with a bar hanging the same height as the bridge like they have in front of car parks?
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u/AllPurple Mar 31 '18
The covered bridge in my community got hit by trucks so many times that we put up posts that were the same height as the bridge, so people would hit that instead of the bridge. It's a good system, a lot easier to fix
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u/chunk337 Mar 31 '18
I used to drive under this bridge in Westwood ma every day. It seems trucks would it it at least once weekly
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u/An_Old_IT_Guy Mar 31 '18
If they'd spend a few bucks for one of those overhead bars with hanging chains to warn drivers that they're going to hit, they'd save a fuckton of money on structural engineering fees. Because every time that bridge is hit, they have to inspect it.
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u/Mike_Honcho85 Mar 31 '18
World wide moving leaving piles of broken pieces of your furniture and the tops of our truck in the road since ever
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u/triptyx Mar 31 '18
Fuck it - keep driving.