What's the difference between historic and substandard? Don't get me wrong I like some of the older things you find in small communities but semi trucks are a fact of life and are needed to support business and life across the country. I don't drive a truck but it's pretty clear to me that the truck shouldn't be going across a bridge like that. I know many communities have posted truck routes so things like this don't occur and I have to say if the city doesn't plan and post truck routes they have some responsibility in this one. It's not that I'm ignorant of trucking, my Dad was a trucker for almost 50 years. I remember him talking about delivering cars in Chicago, there was only a few ways in and out of various parts of the city because of viaducts, elevated trains and other low bridges. My mother drove school bus for years, her route was the only one that could only be ran in one direction as there was a "historic" bridge and she wasn't allowed to cross with any students on board, eventually someone from the county road department got to thinking and she wasn't allowed to take her bus across the bridge period. Then one New Year's Day a drunk in a Dodge pick up arranged for us to get a new bridge, wasn't that nice of him?
I watch our crumbling infrastructure, I hear if issues with roads that continually are under repair and for some reason can't be fixed right. My daughter lives in Kalamazoo Michigan and hear of the millions and billions of dollars Michigan wants to spend re doing I-94 where a lot of the accidents they have could simply be prevented with a more aggressive snow and ice control program. They want to build more capacity in the road but might it be a better idea to improve or build new roads that would help alleviate the congestion on I-94 and also save us the misery induced by the 5 year construction program it will take to improve the road. Where else but government could/would a manager think "gee this road is used above it's capacity 5 days a week so let's shu it down for 5 years to make it bigger" I wonder if it's graft (legal or otherwise) or incompetence. The government seems willing to stick it's nose into everything but doesn't seem to be able to handle basic things like passable roads. Why do we let them get away with it? Current DOT practices seem to indicate they're more worried about a driver using a CPAP machine than if they have the basic intelligence to under sand what "6 Ton Limit" means or the basic common sense not to get yourself and your truck someplace where 6 ton bridges and low overpasses abound.
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