Bus probably belongs to Google, shuttling employees around… fuck you local infrastructure, we’ll cross where we want.
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Ok! Added to the post. Thanks, @TobinL!
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Thank you!
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If it were up to trump and the conservatives, there would be no maintenence crews and no safety regulations at all. When it finally collapses with a bus full of people, they’ll just turn the other way and pretend it didn’t happen. Just like a third world government treats its people.
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It seems to have fairly low overhead clearance. If they lowered it further so only small trucks and passenger cars could fit, that would probably solve the problem, or at least then we’d get videos of busses shearing their roofs off.
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Win win.
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They should put a crash bar before the entrance, at the obligatory height of 11 feet 8 inches.
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Or tweet something about trollies under the bridge.
10 tons? Fancy. Try that on this bridge with a THREE ton limit designed by the same firm that designed the Brooklyn Bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegelsville_Bridge
“The bridge can take the weight all right, but can it take it in one solid mass?”
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Yeah, but not to be exercised on a daily basis. The bridge is ultimately strong enough for the load, but its introducing fatigue stress that can lead to tragic failure.
A vehicle scale linked to a gate seems in order!
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Maybe replace one of the 62 signs leading to the bridge with one saying “You will be fined $1000 if you try to cross this bridge over weight limits”. Then have a car at the other end do exactly that.
Immediate repercussions are effective.
Certainly far more effective than filming them and going tsk, tsk.
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Wow, that’s right by Eureka Springs! I’m going to check out that bridge next time I’m down there. Maybe I can get my own video
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The Ozarks have quite a few suspension bridges. We call them “swinging bridges” here. Some are very small and many were built by one guy, Joseph Dice, in the 1920s & 1930s. I will drive out of my way to visit these while they still exist.
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I believe that’s an example of sloppy journalism, rather then proof how much the bus actually weighs. Someone thought the bus was 35 tons after watching the video.
I do believe this bus also actually scratches the sign hanging over the bridge. You can see it moving as the bus passes under it.
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I’m sure one could engineer a couple of planks that go across a pit right in front of the bridge so they’d collapse with ten tons of weight on them. Or maybe call it five tons per axle.
Bus rolls on to the planks, crashes down a foot or so, needs to be towed out, meanwhile the bridge is blocked for an hour or so and the driver gets cited.
Shape the pit properly and maybe the bus can back out under it’s own power with just a bit of damage to it’s front end. The local jurisdiction may need a number of replacement planks on hand.
(Sorry, thinking like an engineer)
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At least this isn’t a bridge on an interstate like the I5 bridge hear here that got knocked down by an over-height load.
