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Ibaudia ,
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The fact that 22 of those 75 were just this year reinforces my suspicion that drivers have been getting enormously worse recently.

toofpic ,

“Fools bridge” from Saint-Petersburg saying hi!
It’s just below the height of the most popular small truck, Gazelle - despite the poster saying: “It’s low, Gazelle doesn’t fit” (in addition to a normal sign), drivers keep checking that.https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7d41eefa-eb82-473a-a5c7-8f45ca0779d7.jpeg

SnotFlickerman , (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Funny but also fucked up.

Wasn’t it during the Bush or Obama years we got failing grades nationally on bridge infrastructure?

We have done fuck all to fix those bridges in the years since.

Soon, Penny will munch its last truck and the driver will go with it as Penny collapses down on them both.

Just look at how absolutely fucked the side of that bridge is. I’d be praying to every conceivable god anytime I had to go over or under it.

thejoker954 ,

Sign bad.

2275 trucks munched this year since 2004?

Clusterfck ,

I mean, if you’re making a conscious effort to read that totally wrong…. yeah, that’s what it says.

Skua ,

Was this photo taken some time around 2007 or did something change that made this year so bad?

Infynis ,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

That’s the current total. There’s road work routing more people through there at the moment, but there kind of always is. Penny’s also getting a lot more attention now, so the historical numbers may be underreported

lemming741 ,

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.

EldritchFeminity ,

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.

lath ,

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.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Big Penny’s feet, obviously.

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

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aeronmelon ,

I love how gnarly the underside of the bridge is. Everyone thinks they’re the exception.

TwitchingCheese , (edited )

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.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks!

spankmonkey ,

…increasing the bridge’s hunger.

desktop_user ,

it’s important to know your motorhome’s height, how else are you supposed to get drive-thru food?

SlopppyEngineer ,

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.

unemployedclaquer ,

That bridge needs more 11’8"

macarthur_park ,

For the uninitiated

Entertainmeonly ,

I read the site but couldn’t find why the sign says 12’4 if it’s really 11’8"?

yetAnotherUser ,

It was sadly raised due to the high number of crashes

TwitchingCheese ,

They raised the bridge a handful of years back due to all the crashes.

Didn’t stop the crashes.

FinishingDutch ,
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

They actually raised it back in 2019.

11foot8.com/raising-11foot8/

It didn’t help much, obviously.

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