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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim
The 11Foot8 bridge is represented on a bunch of Youtubes.
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A national standard was created in the early 1950s: 14 feet. Any bridge that does not meet that standard should have been removed or fixed long ago.
Nobody should be expected to always see a sign (ie 11'8"). A human who is reading is not (cannot) see moving traffic. Expecting a human to constantly shift from and to 'text processing' creates fatigue. And does not always happen.
At a minimum, a 14 foot pole over the road with many chains hanging from that pole should be installed on approaches to and on both sides of that bridge. Then the obvious noise of chains warns a driver of a defectively installed and maintained bridge.
Rather than blame persons and reason for that defect, we blame a driver for doing what drivers cannot do every time. No driver is expected to see those text numbers every time. So many videos demonstrate the problem - that bridge and the problem people who will not fix it.
Some bridges are located over a low spot in the road. So a long trailer that is only 11' 4" high can still strike an 11' 8" bridge. Is that a driver's fault that the sign is also wrong? No. That is a bridge that should have been at 14' - generations ago.