Question for USers: is ‘OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN’ a standard phrase on signs?
If so, how is it generally understood? Is it:
“If you are driving an overheight vehicle (you need to know whether yours is), you must turn.”
or
“You - yes, you - are overheight. You must turn.”
I think it is strange they have a regular green light when the “Must turn” light is on. why not a red light and a green right arrow if the Must Turn light is on. Once the over height truck turns the light can turn green.
It’s a high-traffic, two-lane road – it’s not clear how the light would single out the truck to signal to it specifically.
Did they ever consider lowering the roadway? I mean, make a slight
grade in the asphalt (about 12 inches or so) would make hitting the bridge less likely.
My opinion stay the same, lower the damn bridge and enjoy.
And make taller trucks!
When an overheight vehicle is detected, the light goes red. Unless the driver runs the light (which has totally happened, leading to high-speed impact drama), the driver has a whole red light cycle to contemplate the sign before driving through.
A sewer main runs just under the road. Lowering the road would require an overhaul of the sewer system.
They’d save a lot of truck roofs if they would just install some hydraulic bollards.
It looks to be a relatively major road (so trucks need to go to the surrounding blocks), right near a freeway off-ramp, and ultimately it keeps the fundamental problem (people ignoring signs).
So… you have no actual viable solutions/suggestions either, and you’re just here to enjoy the endless regurgitation of this perpetual topic?
Overheard at the barber shop:
Just take a little off the top please.
Calling @wazroth…
There are businesses on a perpendicular street that receive deliveries from trucks that (at least for the old bridge height) were too tall. The only way to get to those buildings was to go up to this intersection and turn before the bridge. Notice that it’s never a local truck or even a pro truck driver that plows into this bridge. It’s almost always rental trucks. There was a lift truck that smashed it’s cherry-picker into the old bridge, but that looked like it was because someone hadn’t lowered the cherry-picker all the way.
With the windshield of the cab at max height instead of the cargo box. You know, so that the driver can more clearly see that they ain’t gonna make it under that bar.
“Overheight Must Turn” is clearly a slogan developed by the local tourism board to subtly reference local winemaking techniques. Because if Durham, North Carolina isn’t already well-known for its fine wines, that’s something that needs to change. Or not.
So this problematic-ass bridge is basically the equiv of the Kabayoshi Maru?
BB seems to be the 11’8" of the internets…
What was it about ‘insanity’ that Einstein is misquoted as saying, again?
tires were just a tad over inflated.
