A sensor ahead of the bridge immediately changes the traffic light before the bridge. Drivers have to either 1. Run a red light, or 2. Stare at a blinking “Overheight - Must Turn” sign for a full light cycle, then decide to run the bridge. It’s not alert fatigue - unless you consider stop lights alert fatigue.
In which case, please provide your coordinates and I’ll make sure to never drive there.
Oh, yeah. There was a big blinking sign that said “Check O ring Seals Prior To Ignition.”/s 
Drop the yellow bar to three metres.
This is a thing in Integrated Cycling. If cars are passing too close, move further into the lane to make it clear to the drivers that there is no chance at all of getting past in the same lane. They will use the next lane to pass and leave you more room.
Likewise, lowering the yellow bar makes it absolutely clear that trucks are not going to get past under that bridge, simplifying the driver’s decision on what route to use.
The driver will see the red light and stop. They will then look at their phone until they see green in their peripheral vision, then go.
And if you think the city bears ANY culpability - legal, moral, or ethical - for such incompetent drivers, then good luck with that. The rest of us, over here in the reality-based community, wave “hi!”
While you wave hi, more people will crash their trucks into the bridge and the problem will still exist.
The city has responsibility to make the road and bridge safe. They have the responsibility to provide proper messaging around the risk. That responsibility includes taking human cognition and nature into account. They have failed to take basic, fundamental, freshmen-level, quick google search level understanding of human cognition into account.
The drivers hitting the bridge clearly have no idea about the risk of the bridge. The city has been aware of the risk for years.
The city can blame drivers not reading the signs all they want. From my perspective, the city isn’t even trying. Maybe the state an federal regulations are at fault for not having effective bridge height signage.
Maybe people who run red lights should crash their rental trucks so we can make sure they never rent a truck again and potentially kill someone while running their next red light in a 15 ton vehicle?
Too many bridge dwellers, never enough goats.
This is a city bus route, and the busses are 11’ high. No go. Also, @wazroth, isn’t preclearance bars on the bingo card?
In my experience, they do. And there is a decal affixed to the top of the windshield listing the height. And they carefully point out that the insurance that they sell you WILL NOT COVER THIS.
So once again, it comes down to people being idiots. 
I have to come clean ! I just like the idea of lowering the bridge after they raised it, just for the fun of it.
I suspect in 2050 we will be reading “14ft bridge (was 13ft 8in) hit by live giraffe transport truck”…
Anyone had “Clearance is not stated in SI units!” yet?
I think I might have had an idea that’s not on the bingo card.
Put up a big screen next to the bridge showing highlights of the footage from 11foot8.com.
I mean, it probably won’t help much, but at least it’ll be entertaining for everyone else.
Yeah, but they’re already marked – @DamianHart mentioned the same idea in reply #62.
This, on the other hand, is on the bingo card and hasn’t been marked yet.
I think @cosmotic is on the board for two now!
No. I blame the city.
I think @anon32019413 beat you to the punch here.
I appreciate your passion, and I’d be behind you all the way if people were dying by this bridge. They’re not. If they were I guarantee the underpass would be closed. No lives are being lost, and few if any injuries are being sustained. Which is why we can all have a laugh about it meanwhile you’re taking a stand for other people’s property.
I sure don’t understand why anyone would defend indefensibly stupid people.
You are all failing to realize it is not something the city really has control over at all. The railroad has the ROW here and it is their bridge. Their ROW overrides the State’s and the City’s , The State and City are doing everything they can within the regs of roadway design short of raising the bridge to a proper height because the RR company will not play ball, they say their tracks were there first so its not their problem.
I swear I had put “The rail company owns the bridge and the state owns the road” on the bingo card, but I guess I was wrong.
