In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 14/12/2015 20:08, Basil Jet wrote:

On 2015\12\14 19:38, Redoute wrote:
Am 14.12.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Basil Jet:

Presumably this one. 13'9" clearance on the South Circular Road.
You'd have to wonder how blind someone would have to be to hit that.

Oops... https://goo.gl/maps/AE7Z3fJAGoH2

Holy crap, I couldn't work out what that was at first but what looks
like a tarpaulin hanging on the side is actually bulging steel from the
container which is caved in at the front. Great company name too...
"Logistic Planning Services". I don't think they planned this!

Indeed, it's a shipping container that's taken a hefty whack! The
whole side wall of the container appears to be at a slight angle too.

Coming from that direction, the lorry will have passed a height
activated warning sign too. I think there's a fair amount of advance
signage about this bridge too. I suppose the issue is that it is the
grandly named South Circular Road, and so perhaps lulls drivers
(particularly those familiar with the North Circular) into a false
sense of security, though it's not the only low bridge on the route.

Looking at Google Street View I can't see signs of height activated warning
signs further along the road and in the other direction the sign is far too
far past the detectors. Even the diversion signs are only temporary! Bizarre.

There are other low bridges on the South Circular, at East Putney station
for example. That also has advance height activated warning signs in one
direction, the approach from the west, but it is well ahead of the bridges.
https://goo.gl/maps/6E92R3W8DdQ2 shows the detector posts with the sign just
visible in the distance and the bridge some way beyond it, with left and
right turns available to avoid the bridge. And it's 15" too. Putting the
sign right by the bridge, far too late to turn, is taking the ****.

And why do the ****wits at Google fuzz out the height restriction signs in
some views?

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Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 01:40:50
on Tue, 15 Dec 2015, remarked:

And why do the ****wits at Google fuzz out the height restriction signs in
some views?

It's done automatically. The computer probably thinks they are car
number plates or something. I've seen car hubcaps fuzzed out because the
system thought they were faces. Gives you a lot of confidence in the
software of the autonomous cars being able to identify obstacles,
doesn't it?
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Roland Perry

In message , at 18:30:42
on Mon, 14 Dec 2015, remarked:

Some drivers are remarkably unaware of the size of their vehicle, judging by
the bashes that keep happening. Eventually the worst example bridges get
sacrificial beams so the idiots damage their vehicles and not the railway.

Not all of them. The Ely underpass is one of the most bashed bridges in
the country, but doesn't have any sacrificial beams, or even any dangly
things, which are used at some locations. You couldn't really put more
signage before or on it either: https://goo.gl/maps/YNrHVRr2ufA2
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Roland Perry

In article ,
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And it's 15" too.

Oops! No it isn't. It's 15'.

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Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
01:40:50 on Tue, 15 Dec 2015, remarked:

And why do the ****wits at Google fuzz out the height restriction signs
in some views?

It's done automatically. The computer probably thinks they are car
number plates or something. I've seen car hubcaps fuzzed out because
the system thought they were faces. Gives you a lot of confidence in
the software of the autonomous cars being able to identify obstacles,
doesn't it?

chuckle

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Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
18:30:42 on Mon, 14 Dec 2015, remarked:

Some drivers are remarkably unaware of the size of their vehicle, judging
by the bashes that keep happening. Eventually the worst example bridges
get sacrificial beams so the idiots damage their vehicles and not the
railway.

Not all of them. The Ely underpass is one of the most bashed bridges
in the country, but doesn't have any sacrificial beams, or even any
dangly things, which are used at some locations. You couldn't really
put more signage before or on it either:
https://goo.gl/maps/YNrHVRr2ufA2

Indeed. Why, I wonder?

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Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 08:00:39
on Tue, 15 Dec 2015, remarked:

The Ely underpass is one of the most bashed bridges in the country,
but doesn't have any sacrificial beams, or even any dangly things,
which are used at some locations. You couldn't really put more
signage before or on it either: https://goo.gl/maps/YNrHVRr2ufA2

Indeed. Why, I wonder?

Undoubtedly because people don't understand what they are driving. One
of the first bridge bashes after I moved to Ely was a brand new "White
van" belonging to a very local tradesman, whose only excuse was "the
last white van I had fitted underneath".

Same with double-decker buses having the top sliced off elsewhere quite
regularly - the only possible excuse is that the driver had a blank and
thought he was driving a single decker.
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Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
08:00:39 on Tue, 15 Dec 2015, remarked:

The Ely underpass is one of the most bashed bridges in the country,
but doesn't have any sacrificial beams, or even any dangly things,
which are used at some locations. You couldn't really put more
signage before or on it either: https://goo.gl/maps/YNrHVRr2ufA2

Indeed. Why, I wonder?

Undoubtedly because people don't understand what they are driving.
One of the first bridge bashes after I moved to Ely was a brand new
"White van" belonging to a very local tradesman, whose only excuse
was "the last white van I had fitted underneath".

Same with double-decker buses having the top sliced off elsewhere
quite regularly - the only possible excuse is that the driver had a
blank and thought he was driving a single decker.

No, no, no! By "why" I meant "why haven't NR or the County Council installed
any protection devices".

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Colin Rosenstiel