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Are bridges too low or are trucks to high?

by Whaleoil on August 29, 2010

from 11foot8.com

There is a bridge like this on Auckland’s Southern motorway, might I suggest to my readers at NZTA (yes I know you do) that a couple of cameras on the Penrose Road overbridge and you would have a solid Social Media hit right there.

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  • glenn

    Penrose? It’s been as issue for 20 years. There have been warning sensors and flashing lights fo0r that long also.

  • gazman

    I’m surprised the bridge is still standing!!!

  • probligo

    Glenn, also you can see the warning lights on the bridge in the vid.

    Take it as a simple example – you can not legislate for stupidity. Make the stupid pay for the mistake and move on – hopefully Darwin will catch up with them.

    What does that mean in the context of the “Penrose bridge”? If you see a sign saying “Flood”, or “Accident”, do you just carry on at 100k? Yeah, right!

    My employer had a 40HC container for delivery a short distance out of Melbourne. The truckie (contractor) decided he could not get to the delivery destination before knock-off so he went home – with the container on the truck. Direct route from home to delivery included an underpass with rail over. He was lucky that the rail bridge was left “intact” – it is a busy suburban line… His insurance co. had to stand the damage – last estimate I heard was close to AUD450K. I bet (hope?) that he was not long in the heavy carry business after that.