The bridge is on S Pennsylvania Ave in Lansing, MI, hence "Penny". Construction has routed more people through there than normal lately increasing the bridge's hunger.

If there's one thing people that rent trucks or RVs never learn, it's the height of their vehicle (and that yes the flashing overheight lights are in fact for you).

Source: Used to live near there.

"Fools bridge" from Saint-Petersburg saying hi!
It's just below the height of the most popular small truck, Gazelle - despite the poster saying: "It's low, Gazelle doesn't fit" (in addition to a normal sign), drivers keep checking that.

That bridge needs more 11'8"

The fact that 22 of those 75 were just this year reinforces my suspicion that drivers have been getting enormously worse recently.

I love how gnarly the underside of the bridge is. Everyone thinks they’re the exception.

If only there was a conveniently placed security camera nearby that could show us these accidents...

We've got one of those in my town. The height is only 10' 8", and the road makes a V going under the tracks. Long wheelbase trucks might make it through until the front wheels start going up the hill on the other side.

Boston has a whole road that is the physical manifestation of Chaos.

Storrow Drive. Runs along the Charles and is basically the northern border of the city. It has many underpasses, most of which are low enough to munch moving trucks. Every year around late Aug early Sept when college kids are moving in a few trucks get Storrow'd. It's refered to as The Storrowing. It's a fun time to need to get around the city.

Honestly Storrow is one of the scariest roads in New England, and I used to drive every day to and from work almost the entire length of Memorial which is on the opposite bank of the Charles which is a NARROW four lane road (2*2), with a speed limit that is both probably too high and completely ignored, on top of being almost eternally congested. How I didn't see a horrible wreck every day confuses me still.

tl;Dr: Don't drive in Boston unless your ready for some fun (I love the chaos)

Funny but also fucked up.

Wasn't it during the Bush or Obama years we got failing grades nationally on bridge infrastructure?

We have done fuck all to fix those bridges in the years since.

Soon, Penny will munch its last truck and the driver will go with it as Penny collapses down on them both.

Just look at how absolutely fucked the side of that bridge is. I'd be praying to every conceivable god anytime I had to go over or under it.

https://youtu.be/7pO39Sh6THg?si=BmOcfhOKk0jzjwxS

This video is really hilarious. Idk if it's the same bridge or not. Also I know people on Lemmy don't like links to YouTube but I don't know how to do the thing.

The problem is using feet to measure it. Whose feet? What size? Shoed or bare? So many possibilities involving feet, there's no real way of crossing under this safely.

(I have no idea what big penny means.)

It's a reference to how expensive it will be to repair the trucks.

So what's the signage before trucks can no longer turn around?

A city I used to live in had a bridge like this in a major inner-city commercial area just outside the CBD. Would cause havoc for commuters because the bridge was for the southern train lines entering the CBD and was on a busy road entering an major arterial.

All the traffic got held up and diverted, the trains couldn't run until engineers inspected the bridge.

Reminds me of a bridge that the road passing under got resurfaced and raised a few inches but the signs never got changed. After a truck got stuck, at least they fixed the sign.

Drivers are going hit hit that bridge while trying to figure out wtf that sign means.

Was this photo taken some time around 2007 or did something change that made this year so bad?

Montague Street Bridge in Melbourne is 10 feet high.

It's probably the local name for the monster.

Bayswater Bridge RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayswater_Subway

What a great idea. Perfect execution.

I also like the Milwaukee Roundabout. No recent videos though, sadly. Gotta respect intersections that consistently pwn drivers.