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I would think you could rig a bridge with hanging chain or such that loudly whacks the truck 100 feet in front of the bridge. We have that on a low clearance parking garage at the airport. It would be easy to do the way this low clearance comes up but the hanging barrier bangs you loudly before you can get to it.
I would think you could rig a bridge with hanging chain or such that loudly whacks the truck 100 feet in front of the bridge. We have that on a low clearance parking garage at the airport. It would be easy to do the way this low clearance comes up but the hanging barrier bangs you loudly before you can get to it.
Theoretically the red light that tells you to stop and the sign that tells you that you are overheight and you have to turn should help too, but if you're going to run a red light chances are you're going to run right through those chains, too.
I think the only thing that would really help some people would be guardrails that come down like at railroad crossings and they still might go around them.
Guard rails coming down would be a problem for cars coming from the other direction. If you hit a chain you will likely be coming to a stop to find out what the heck you just hit.
Theoretically the red light that tells you to stop and the sign that tells you that you are overheight and you have to turn should help too, but if you're going to run a red light chances are you're going to run right through those chains, too.
I think the only thing that would really help some people would be guardrails that come down like at railroad crossings and they still might go around them.
Add tuned pipes to the chains and you can orchestrate the crash.
But seriously if you set the thing up right you actually damage the vehicle if it simply plows through. If they then hit the bridge I would think you got good case to fire the driver. Any RV owner I know will back way down and feel through the chains. They do not want their vehicle damages if they can help it. And you can even make the chain bridge look scarier than it really is. Ugly big things with no real weight among the chains.
Could they install a low-clearance bar?
A low clearance bar is a bar suspended by chains ahead of the bridge. Overheight vehicles hit that bar first and the noise alerts the driver to to the problem. I understand that this approach has been successful in other places, but it’s not practical here. There are many overheight trucks that have to be able to drive right up to the bridge and turn onto Peabody St. in order to deliver supplies to several restaurants. Making Peabody St inaccessible from Gregson St would make the restaurant owners and the delivery drivers very unhappy.
Add tuned pipes to the chains and you can orchestrate the crash.
But seriously if you set the thing up right you actually damage the vehicle if it simply plows through. If they then hit the bridge I would think you got good case to fire the driver. Any RV owner I know will back way down and feel through the chains. They do not want their vehicle damages if they can help it. And you can even make the chain bridge look scarier than it really is. Ugly big things with no real weight among the chains.
Theoretically the red light that tells you to stop and the sign that tells you that you are overheight and you have to turn should help too, but if you're going to run a red light chances are you're going to run right through those chains, too.
I know this sounds stupid, but I wonder if some drivers see that "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" sign and it just doesn't register that the sign is talking directly to them. Like they don't know that it's really saying "You. YES, YOU. Your vehicle will not fit under this bridge." And instead they read it as "If your vehicle is overheight, you must turn" and assume it doesn't pertain to them.
I would think you could rig a bridge with hanging chain or such that loudly whacks the truck 100 feet in front of the bridge. We have that on a low clearance parking garage at the airport. It would be easy to do the way this low clearance comes up but the hanging barrier bangs you loudly before you can get to it.
Been there, done that. Didn't work. At least the signal seems to stop most of the crashes.
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