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Jabor posted:Now instead of idiots driving trucks under the bridge and causing a little bit of easily-fixed property damage, you have idiots driving across the tracks and getting people killed. Counterpoint: they deserve it.
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tactlessbastard posted:Counterpoint: they deserve it. The children in the back seat really don't.
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Jabor posted:Now instead of idiots driving trucks under the bridge and causing a little bit of easily-fixed property damage, you have idiots driving across the tracks and getting people killed. I didn't say it solved the problem of idiots existing or was even a good idea, just the simplest way to stop people crashing into the bridge. edit: plus while most idiots apparently don't seem to understand the concept of tape measures I'm fairly sure that a train crossing gate that's actually in the way will at least lower the chances of getting hit. Actually, now that I think about that's a better idea, link up a crossing gate to a height sensor at the intersection right before and don't actually allow overheight vehicles to go further. It'd be difficult to implement though without absolutely loving traffic flow but there'd have to be a way around that surely. bend fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Nov 8, 2016 |
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Nov 8, 2016 04:07
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http://i.imgur.com/yT9SBet.mp4
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Nov 8, 2016 04:12
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Jabor posted:The children in the back seat really don't. Think of the children!
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Nov 8, 2016 04:17
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Sentient Data posted:Add a treadmill before the bridge That only works for airplanes, not trucks
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Nov 8, 2016 04:38
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Give the bridge a gun Give the trucks guns Give the trains a guns
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Nov 8, 2016 04:45
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IPCRESS posted:You're all wrong about this. Make all the trucks do this so they fit underneath the bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnua2l5UmIk
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Nov 8, 2016 04:48
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thought this was the schadenfreude thread
MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Nov 8, 2016 |
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Nov 8, 2016 04:53
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Powershift posted:Just a reminder this person took out this bridge because she didn't know how many pounds 6 tons was another victim to US customary units
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Nov 8, 2016 04:56
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Prav posted:another victim to US customary units To be fair, it’s harder to remember how many newtons are in a ton.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:58
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There was a long underpass near where I used to live that had a 6" difference in clearance from one end to the other due to a slow grade. Worse than a can opener is being halfway through what's basically a tunnel THEN getting stuck. It surprisingly didn't happen a ton but I personally witnessed at least a dozen. It's the quickest (and most frequent on GPS) route to the train yard and industrial parks that most of them would be on their way to. The other option is at least 5 miles around.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:00
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GotLag posted:But then you get idiots stopping their trucks across the tracks. 
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Nov 8, 2016 05:02
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Platystemon posted:Make all the trucks do this so they fit underneath the bridge: for a truck with a nominally square profile, driving on two wheels makes it taller by a factor of √2, dumbass
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Nov 8, 2016 05:03
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Platystemon posted:To be fair, it’s harder to remember how many newtons are in a ton. newton? what was wrong with the old ton??
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Sagebrush posted:for a truck with a nominally square profile, driving on two wheels makes it taller by a factor of √2, dumbass make everything drive on two wheels with a 13'6" limit by default. when theres a low bridge, they just plop down flat and there's tons of clearance. solved
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Nov 8, 2016 05:10
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Powershift posted:Just a reminder this person took out this bridge because she didn't know how many pounds 6 tons was My knee-jerk reaction was a thousand kilos per ton, but then I remembered that there are backward nations that don't use metric and so google'd it... where, at worst, it's less than 10% different. So yes, it's more a case of a driver not knowing wtf they where doing.
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Serephina posted:My knee-jerk reaction was a thousand kilos per ton, but then I remembered that there are backward nations that don't use metric and so google'd it... where, at worst, it's less than 10% different. So yes, it's more a case of a driver not knowing wtf they where doing. I looked up what her truck actually weighed. It was 30 tons. And until the previous year she had never driven any vehicle because she grew up Amish!
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Nov 8, 2016 05:25
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I think they should just raise the bridge. E: or maybe just lower the road below.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:25
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Jonny 290 posted:make everything drive on two wheels with a 13'6" limit by default. when theres a low bridge, they just plop down flat and there's tons of clearance. solved 
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Nov 8, 2016 05:30
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Sagebrush posted:for a truck with a nominally square profile, driving on two wheels makes it taller by a factor of √2, dumbass Trucks over 102 inches wide cannot drive on Interstate highways without oversize permits. That’s 8½ feet. If they had square profiles, they’d clear the bridge with over three feet to spare. 
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Nov 8, 2016 05:35
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just delete the bridge and hit page-up one more time before plopping it back
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Nov 8, 2016 06:16
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i went back in time to when the bridge was constructed and planned the whole thing
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Nov 8, 2016 06:54
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tactlessbastard posted:Replace the sample height barrier with a tempered sharp wedge and pre-peel the morons. They have already done this! They got tired of having to fix the bridge, so that metal the trucks are hitting is just there to pre-peel the trucks, take a look at the pictures.
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Nov 8, 2016 07:28
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Maybe if they put an airframe parachute on the bridge?
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Nov 8, 2016 08:11
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they should rig up a system to drop a 400 lb concrete block in front of all overheight trucks
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Nov 8, 2016 08:14
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Have the road corkscrew with rollers, so trucks can pass under it at a ninety degree angle. Or just setup a better camera system and profit off the idiots with viral videos.
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Nov 8, 2016 08:37
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They should have an oil sprayer in front of the bridge to lube up the trucks before the go in
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Nov 8, 2016 08:52
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Nov 8, 2016 09:47
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I'm sure someone has said this but just lower the road a foot or two around the area where the road goes under the bridge. All it involves is some digging and re-surfacing. Here is a picture:
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Nov 8, 2016 10:16
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There's a sewer main under the road. It has been mentioned about ten thousand times. Read the thread before posting in it. I want to put this thread in one of those open top tour busses and drive under the bridge. What has a bridge got to do with OSHA anyway.
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Nov 8, 2016 10:22
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Splode posted:There's a sewer main under the road. It has been mentioned about ten thousand times. Read the thread before posting in it. Convert the sewer+road into a ford, so that trucks and turds can share the same space. Seems pretty easy, with no drawbacks.
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Nov 8, 2016 10:26
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I really think we should get to the bottom of this. There has to be an obvious solution that's being overlooked. Alternatively there may even be reasons not to do those things. Can we talk about these solutions and reasons?
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Nov 8, 2016 10:55
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Assembly/disassembly line on each side of the bridge, transport the parts through your precious sewer pipes
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Nov 8, 2016 11:08
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They should just brick it up permanently.
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Nov 8, 2016 11:11
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Then paint a tunnel on it
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Nov 8, 2016 11:12
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Big trapdoor in the intersection. When an overheight truck tries to drive though it suddenly disappears from sight with a 'wah-wanh' sound effect.
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Nov 8, 2016 11:22
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Motherfuckers need a Falkirk wheel.
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Nov 8, 2016 11:25
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Splode posted:There's a sewer main under the road. It has been mentioned about ten thousand times. Read the thread before posting in it. Well just move the sewer slightly lower. Another idea is to make the road under the bridge inclined and curved and have vehicles move at like 80 mph under the bridge in a curve so tall trucks will tilt diagonally and miss the bridge.
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Neutrino posted:There are idiots out there practicing idiot engineering and from what I see the south tends to have a good concentration of them. I managed an asphalt paving contract this summer with one street that had a hospital overpass with a little over 14-foot clearance. I reminded my inspector a few times that the contractor should mill 3-inches of pavement and replace it with 3-inches of asphalt underneath the overpass. I also told the contractor the same and guess what happened? There is the same clearance now as before. Magic! What's a "3-inch"?
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