Easily solved. Raise the roadbed a few feet and drivers will stop thinking they can get under the track.
1. Widen the bridge.
2. Re-route the sewer to run over the widened section of bridge.
3. Lower the road.
The idiot truckers ignore the warnings.
We have one on Storrow Drive in Boston that the truckers have been driving under for years-——ignoring the warnings and tying up traffic when they get stuck.
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There are some low clearances on the Wilburcross/Merritt Parkways in Connecticut (Route 15) which eventually becomes the Hutchinson River Parkway in New York State.
The solution in Connecticut is to not allow commercial traffic. But people do it anyway sometimes.
Here's a bridge truck competition story they would love. It's a tie. Both the bridge and the truck are killed.
Scroll down a bit and click on "View gallery (9 images)".
The guy somehow raised the bed of the truck loaded with stone while he was driving along I-90. It knocked the pedestrian bridge partly off its supports. They truck got trashed and they took the bridge down. It was a murder-suicide situation.
So, because it has been there and is a well known issue, are they saying truckers are too stupid to go another route?
Wasn’t there a few trillion dollars set aside for infrastructure projects back in 2009 that was supposed to take care of things like this?
My favorite part of those videos is watching the bridge scrape off the AC units on top of camper trailers.
This brought back a memory of when I was a kid back in the 60’s all the moving van semi-trailers that traveled the south had tiny tires to be able to negotiate the low bridge clearances.
My grandfather (b. 1906) said he once got his truck stuck under a railroad bridge. He let the air out of the tires and made it through. He told me that story about 40 years ago.
Cincinnati has one with lots more accidents than that:
I used that horn all 4 years I marched. Everybody recognized their horn by the dents and duct tape.