My first thought upon seeing this was the “[water curtain](https://youtu.be/ImU1mG7QC4I?t=75)” stop sign systems that are typically used for tunnel entrances. I’m not sure as to how much LaserVision charges for that system, or whether or not they have exclusive rights to the design, though.
That channel doesn’t have as many crashes now they raised the bridge. It use to get one every week and now only 1 a month, drivers were not getting smarter so the other option was to make it less of a hazard.
Good on them for at least adding the obvious blinking “Overheight” indication. Too often, bureaucracy just stops at it would cost too much money to raise the bridge, instead of thinking of alternative solutions to mitigate issues.
I could have sworn they added a hanging metal sign that says “if you hit this sign, you will hit that bridge” maybe 10 meters before the bridge. Or am I thinking of a different area?
I’ve mentioned it before on those videos, the changing to red works a bit against its purpose in some instances because some drivers seemed to speed up to beat the red light.
Only in the US do a thousand trucks crash into one bridge and people will still say the truckers are at fault. This is clearly a fault in road design. If you have a low bridge the width and design of the road leading up to it should suggest vehicles of a certain size aren’t suitable.
Or install a higher bridge outright or get rid of the bridge in favour of a crossing. This is just dumb
A friend of mine shaved her bikes off of her car roof rack pulling into a parking garage once. Helluva sight and helluva noise. The garage did NOT have the warning beam.
I always thought the messaging “Overheight must turn” was really poor. Obviously for any bridge an overheight vehicle must turn, but what it needs to say is “YOU are overheight. YOU must turn” Or maybe something more natural “Vehicle Too tall. You must turn” with some type of strobe. Or even further have something lower to make the space seem even smaller. It just seems like there is much more they can do.
I think the core message is true though, you can’t just assume posting rules will change human behavior, rather you need to design your system to flow with human behavior. Similar to posting a speed limit VS making sure your road is not super wide and straight.
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They added 8″ to make the clearance 12’4″ and drivers still don’t pay attention and crash into the barrier.
Mr. Sherlock is from the Center for Advanced Hindsight.
Thanks a lot, Sherlock.
My first thought upon seeing this was the “[water curtain](https://youtu.be/ImU1mG7QC4I?t=75)” stop sign systems that are typically used for tunnel entrances. I’m not sure as to how much LaserVision charges for that system, or whether or not they have exclusive rights to the design, though.
That channel doesn’t have as many crashes now they raised the bridge. It use to get one every week and now only 1 a month, drivers were not getting smarter so the other option was to make it less of a hazard.
Good on them for at least adding the obvious blinking “Overheight” indication. Too often, bureaucracy just stops at it would cost too much money to raise the bridge, instead of thinking of alternative solutions to mitigate issues.
I could have sworn they added a hanging metal sign that says “if you hit this sign, you will hit that bridge” maybe 10 meters before the bridge. Or am I thinking of a different area?
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I used to live right near that bridge!
I actually had to avoid this underpass when I was returning my U-Haul.
What is up with the weird cameras angles in this video? I feel like I am watching a making of documentary about this video.
It doesn’t seem like it would be all that expensive to lower the road going under the overpass.
I’ve mentioned it before on those videos, the changing to red works a bit against its purpose in some instances because some drivers seemed to speed up to beat the red light.
Only in the US do a thousand trucks crash into one bridge and people will still say the truckers are at fault. This is clearly a fault in road design. If you have a low bridge the width and design of the road leading up to it should suggest vehicles of a certain size aren’t suitable.
Or install a higher bridge outright or get rid of the bridge in favour of a crossing. This is just dumb
They should do the waterfall thing they did in Australia before that tunnel.
I memba it, who else does?
LOL at the “HOPE” van 09:26
A friend of mine shaved her bikes off of her car roof rack pulling into a parking garage once. Helluva sight and helluva noise. The garage did NOT have the warning beam.
I always thought the messaging “Overheight must turn” was really poor. Obviously for any bridge an overheight vehicle must turn, but what it needs to say is “YOU are overheight. YOU must turn” Or maybe something more natural “Vehicle Too tall. You must turn” with some type of strobe. Or even further have something lower to make the space seem even smaller. It just seems like there is much more they can do.
I think the core message is true though, you can’t just assume posting rules will change human behavior, rather you need to design your system to flow with human behavior. Similar to posting a speed limit VS making sure your road is not super wide and straight.
Getting big Mark Brandanowitz vibes from that civil engineer…
Why not just mark the street as closed with google?