Showing posts with label bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bridge. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

you can't fix stupid, but you can attach a laser detection system to alert truckers the bridge is a can opener




Instead of the cost of rolling a tow truck, fire dept, EMS, and police every time some idiot ignores the height limit sign, and the obvious low damn overpass they can't fit under, the city of Wichita is installing a laser sensor that will kick up a 2nd line of warning signs to alert the idiot over 12 foot high that the bridge isn't 12 foot high.

Roughly 2wice a year since the year 2000 a new and different idiot has peeled off the top of his truck or rental delivery van 23 different times

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/City-trying-new-Waterman-street-bridge-clearance-warning-system-364909661.html?

Friday, January 1, 2016

4 ton limit 136 year old bridge, was just asking for it, apparently


4-ton weight limit historic bridge in Greene County.

The tanker truck owned by Bucccaneer Enterprises of Buckhannon, W.Va., partially fell through the 136-year-old Pollocks Mills Bridge Sunday night.

The driver, identified as Jason Wayne Strawderman, 38, of Beverly, W.Va., told police he didn’t see a weight limit when his GPS led him across the bridge

Found on http://trucksvideo.com/too-heavy-water-tanker-that-caused-the-deck-of-a-historic-bridge-in-greene-country/

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Hope Memorial Bridge: Formerly the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, Cleveland Ohio, the "Guardians of Traffic" statues designed by sculptor Henry Hering and architect Frank Walker


The 8 figures were carved in sandstone and created by sculptor Henry Hering and architect Frank Walker. They were meant to “typify the spirit of progress in transportation”, so each figure holds a different form of ground transport.



http://www.clevelandclimateaction.org/lorain-carnegie-bridge/


http://www.davidschwartzphoto.com/Fine-Art-Prints/Cleveland-Ohio/Cleveland-Hope-Memorial-Bridge/i-7mzDbCx


https://www.pinterest.com/chrisarnotlouis/deco-details/


The Hope Memorial Bridge was renovated and christened as such in the 1980's in honor of a family of Cleveland stonemasons, who also happened to be the family of native son, Bob Hope.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the year that then County Engineer, Albert Porter, threated to remove the historic pylons, calling them "monstrosities".


Romanised assyrian genii, with wrap around wings, that guarded the cities and palaces were given mercury helmets, bookended the four pylons. The 43' pylons were cut from local, Berea, sandstone. The bridge was opened in 1932 after more than a decade of carping, and delays. This is the most monumental display of Cleveland deco.

http://rustbeltvoice.blogspot.com/2011/07/art-deco-cleveland.html

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