PS: @beschizza, you got wazrothed.
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Sad news indeed, luckily we still have the Bayswater (Western Australia) underpass in all it’s glory.
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The 11 ft 8 inch bridge is 3.6 m.(after being raised to 12 ft 4, it will be a staggering 3.7 m)
Right! These videos brought tears I laughed so hard. Then I think well any investment in safety is good? Then I got sad tears and realized how deep it all is.
Dear BBS: Does this end of an era call for a “Proper Obituary?” I suspect so. Let us collectively mourn the loss but embrace the notion it’s going to Heaven where it is safe from all those nasty vehicles. This intersection will remain a treasured memory for SO many.
Anyone know the local paper? We could send something nice to publish?
The blue icon points to the bridge.
Durham platform is a railway platform, and constrains how high the railroad bridge can be raised.
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Until a taller truck or load comes along. So all the systems will still, presumably, be in place.
But I take your points.
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You hold onto your dreams, Bill. That phrase is bound to come in handy one day.
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Nope. There’s a sewer main beneath the road. You’d have to regrade much of the sewer system.
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(For pedantic accuracy’s sake, 8 inches is a little over .2 m, not .1 m)
And that’s probably the kind of attitude that should get a person disqualified from any building or engineering project.
Think about it, if someone took eight inches off you, you’d probably think it was an emergency. You might even be staggered…
One notes that a metric/imperial mixup resulted in a Mars probe being lost.
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A bigger constraint is that the Duke Street crossing is a level crossing. (Also, no one calls it Durham Platform, OpenStreetMaps.)
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Yes, I know, which is why all this, “See? All they needed was $500k!” is annoying. This “fix” will help, somewhat, but an actual solution requires much more reworking of the nearby railway and stations, which is (and has always been) cost-prohibitive.
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I was thinking more like this, except less joyful.
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I almost forgot to answer this legitimate question.
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Silly me. There are 12 inches to a foot, not 16.
11 ft 8 in is 140 inches or 3.56 m
12 ft 4 in is 148 inches, or 3.76 m
so 3,6 m and 3.8 m.
new height is about equal to the bayswater bridge, assuming equal tolerances.
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I bet the insurance cos have paid out more than that cumulatively over the years!
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ISTR that the last time I was involved with renting a moving truck, they were VERY specific that their insurance did not cover you for these sorts of accidents.
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