...increasing the bridge’s hunger.

Thanks!

They'll follow Google maps anywhere blindly. Rational thinking is turned off.

That's how people drove into a lake, under a train, het themselves stuck in too narrow streets, arrive on the wrong country and so on.

it's important to know your motorhome's height, how else are you supposed to get drive-thru food?

Oh shit, I posted a separate comment before I read yours – this is my bridge! Oo

For the uninitiated

I cycle a lot around my city and no cap I believe that they fucking gift driver licenses in cereal boxes nowadays.

I cannot begin to describe the enormous stupidity one can found on the road.

(And not only drivers, electric scooters are almost worse. At least when I have an accident with them they are the ones who take the worst part).

There's a train bridge like that in my hometown, but it's directly over the base of a fairly steep hill. Pretty much anything bigger than a work van is likely to hit it, and I've seen a couple of box trucks with the top 6 inches or so of their roof peeled back like a half-open can of sardines.

For the record, it's not factual that nothing is being done about poor bridge conditions. Just one example is the North Washington St. bridge in Boston.

But, I'm sure you'll reply that "one bridge" doesn't count.

https://www.mass.gov/north-washington-street-bridge-replacement

Storrowed beer

Its even worse during Allston Xmas, the city in its infinite wisdom decided that most leases end on the same day. All the schools also have the new semester start right around the same time, and all the new students arrive within that few day window.

Lets paint this picture, the city is in panic mode as the student population makes up ~25% of the population of Boston, and they are all returning for the new semester. They likely have just moved as their old lease is up and their new one starts on the same day. They will take all of their worldly possessions and put them into the back of their friends sedan and drive to their new place, anything that wont fit is left on the curb. The previous tenant of the new place did the exact same thing. They put all the things they care for into their new place and decide which furniture from the previous tenant is good enough and put it back inside. Anything left on the curb by ~4 PM is fair game, and will be disposed of by the city next time the collect trash

The freshmen, whos parents are sending their spawn to MIT or BU have a u-haul (that they dont know the height of) carrying all their worldly possions, dispite their tiny dorm not having the room for it (and being told this repeatedly by the school). All it takes is one of these muppets to not pay attention and one of the major arteries into the city is blocked. Traffic will back up for miles, non-masshole drivers operating things that should require a CDL are trying to take short-cuts navigating the narrow boston city roads in small box trucks and every residential street will be a mass of double parked cars as the city collectivly shuffles the entire student population in a day.

Chaos is an understatement (its a lot of fun to watch).

https://youtube.com/@11foot8plus8

Big Penny's feet, obviously.

It does seem more effective to place some other form of markers like metal poles down up higher with bells hanging on fishing line or some shit, if you hit the bells, you'd hit the bridge. Place them 50 yards before the bridge

That's the current total. There's road work routing more people through there at the moment, but there kind of always is. Penny's also getting a lot more attention now, so the historical numbers may be underreported

Iirc, this bridge has a ton of signs, signal lights, and indicators leading up to it- they're just farther out, so you can actually turn away from it BEFORE you're committed to going under it, or stopping dead in the street.