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Big Penny! (lemmy.world)

(I have no idea what big penny means.)

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[-] TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 167 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The bridge is on S Pennsylvania Ave in Lansing, MI, hence "Penny". Construction has routed more people through there than normal lately increasing the bridge's hunger.

If there's one thing people that rent trucks or RVs never learn, it's the height of their vehicle (and that yes the flashing overheight lights are in fact for you).

Source: Used to live near there.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago

...increasing the bridge’s hunger.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago
[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This bridge has been stupid low for decades, and it’s a main artery from downtown to the (e hospital and) highway. As of the last time I drove past it, the advance warnings signs didn’t seem adequate to me.

[-] desktop_user 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 85 points 3 months ago

"Fools bridge" from Saint-Petersburg saying hi!
It's just below the height of the most popular small truck, Gazelle - despite the poster saying: "It's low, Gazelle doesn't fit" (in addition to a normal sign), drivers keep checking that.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 72 points 3 months ago

That bridge needs more 11'8"

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago
[-] Entertainmeonly 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I read the site but couldn't find why the sign says 12'4 if it's really 11'8"?

Edit: Thanks for all the answers everyone. Now the 11'8"+8" makes so much more sense.

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

They actually raised it back in 2019.

http://11foot8.com/raising-11foot8/

It didn’t help much, obviously.

[-] Mohaim 11 points 3 months ago

IIRC, they didn't raise it because of the crashes. It's a privately owned rail line and they don't care about that because the bridge itself wasn't being damaged. It needed to be renovated anyway so they raised it to be level with the nearby at-grade crossing while they were at it.

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[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

It was sadly raised due to the high number of crashes

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

The fact that 22 of those 75 were just this year reinforces my suspicion that drivers have been getting enormously worse recently.

[-] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

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).

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

I love how gnarly the underside of the bridge is. Everyone thinks they’re the exception.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

If only there was a conveniently placed security camera nearby that could show us these accidents...

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

We've got one of those in my town. The height is only 10' 8", and the road makes a V going under the tracks. Long wheelbase trucks might make it through until the front wheels start going up the hill on the other side.

[-] EldritchFeminity 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] SnotFlickerman 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Funny but also fucked up.

Wasn't it during the Bush or Obama years we got failing grades nationally on bridge infrastructure?

We have done fuck all to fix those bridges in the years since.

Soon, Penny will munch its last truck and the driver will go with it as Penny collapses down on them both.

Just look at how absolutely fucked the side of that bridge is. I'd be praying to every conceivable god anytime I had to go over or under it.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] brognak@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

Boston has a whole road that is the physical manifestation of Chaos.

Storrow Drive. Runs along the Charles and is basically the northern border of the city. It has many underpasses, most of which are low enough to munch moving trucks. Every year around late Aug early Sept when college kids are moving in a few trucks get Storrow'd. It's refered to as The Storrowing. It's a fun time to need to get around the city.

Honestly Storrow is one of the scariest roads in New England, and I used to drive every day to and from work almost the entire length of Memorial which is on the opposite bank of the Charles which is a NARROW four lane road (2*2), with a speed limit that is both probably too high and completely ignored, on top of being almost eternally congested. How I didn't see a horrible wreck every day confuses me still.

tl;Dr: Don't drive in Boston unless your ready for some fun (I love the chaos)

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Storrowed beer

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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).

[-] Doxatek@mander.xyz 15 points 3 months ago

https://youtu.be/7pO39Sh6THg?si=BmOcfhOKk0jzjwxS

This video is really hilarious. Idk if it's the same bridge or not. Also I know people on Lemmy don't like links to YouTube but I don't know how to do the thing.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

The problem is using feet to measure it. Whose feet? What size? Shoed or bare? So many possibilities involving feet, there's no real way of crossing under this safely.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Big Penny's feet, obviously.

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

(I have no idea what big penny means.)

It's a reference to how expensive it will be to repair the trucks.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

So what's the signage before trucks can no longer turn around?

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

That's how it's done in my country. If you hear the dangly bits scraping on the roof of your truck, you won't fit.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 3 months ago

Was this photo taken some time around 2007 or did something change that made this year so bad?

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] crozilla@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Drivers are going hit hit that bridge while trying to figure out wtf that sign means.

[-] Wynnstan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

What a great idea. Perfect execution.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I also like the Milwaukee Roundabout. No recent videos though, sadly. Gotta respect intersections that consistently pwn drivers.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

There’s a bridge near me with scuff marks on the underside like that. I’ve driven under and briefly wondered about the stories behind each one, and now your post makes me want to investigate further.

[-] woodgen@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

This looks like they want this stat to increase. No warning colors or symbolic signs of danger. But they have a probd counter for their trap.

[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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