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| How would you use electronics to solve the 11' 8" bridge problem |
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| xygor:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 08, 2018, 05:08:17 pm --- --- Quote from: xygor on January 08, 2018, 05:02:19 pm ---It appears to be a non-standard road sign. Are the signs preceding it standard? Could it be a language issue? --- End quote --- What part of it is nonstandard?!? Looks absolutely normal to me. You can use google street view (link to the spot is in a prior comment of mine) to see the signage on the surrounding roads. Language issue? Running a red light isn't a language issue. --- End quote --- :palm: You're right! It is a standard sign. I was talking about the lit one. I guess I fail. No truck for me. |
| IanMacdonald:
Round here we have an issue with councils putting 'goalposts' over car park entrances to stop our local version of the Edema Ruh from camping in them. (Ours are neither very musical, not do they clean up after them, that is the issue.) Thing is, these things also deny the use of the car park to people with larger vehicles who have no intention of camping. :-- This could be an argument against the goalposts, that experience shows height limits to be a hazard in themselves. Electronic solution? Well, the 1500VA UPS will power the large angle grinder, no problem. :clap: |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: drussell on January 07, 2018, 09:54:15 pm --- --- Quote from: Gyro on January 07, 2018, 09:41:40 pm ---- The signage is confusing. The driver is probably still trying to understand the grammar of "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" when he hits the bridge. - The actual height limit sign is small in comparison to the above one, the driver probably doesn't even notice it while trying to decode the other one. If you asked him, he probably wouldn't have even registered the figures. --- End quote --- That is only the last set of warnings. There are signs for blocks before that to warn of the impending trouble. One set even has the detector on it and flashes warning lights on the signs (even well before that last intersection intersection) that basically say "YOU ARE OVERHEIGHT! YOU MUST TURN!" People still smash into the bridge going through the red light. :palm: --- End quote --- It is a typical case of providing too much information so the message gets completely lost. |
| BravoV:
Only see an opportunity, open a shop right after the bridge, that sells only rolls of extra-large sheet plastic to cover the unfortunate "openings", with a hefty price tag of course. |
| Mr. Scram:
Even though we might disagree on whether this road is dangerous enough to shift the blame from the driver onto the road authority, I think we all agree that this road section is more dangerous than most others, right? I think we also agree that there is a point where a road becomes so dangerous this shift of blame does happen, right? Maybe it'd be interesting to find out how many accidents have to happen before this is the case in our respective books? One every month? Every week? Every day? Are deaths maybe required and if so, how many? Or is there some monetary threshold? |
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