Why Do Trucks Keep Smashing Into This Bridge? | Montague St Bridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- For almost a century, this bridge has caused traffic chaos. Welcome to the saga that is Montague Street Bridge.
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fun fact: if you get your heavy vehicle licence in Victoria, the written test actually has an exercise requiring you to navigate around this specific bridge
Fantastic. The Monty question.
Interesting, mine didn’t. But I was doing LR not MR or HR
@@PetraElliottCreates I didn’t realise LR licence was a thing. You can drive light rigids on a car licence
(Edit: hence all the bridge strikes haha)
Ashley Black a LR let’s you drive a truck with a GVM between 4:5 and 8 tonne. Under 4.5t you can drive on a car license
@@garyhankinson5695 whenever I'm faced with a tough choice I just think what would Ashley Black do..
I used to work half a block from the bridge. We could hear the thump of an impact from the warehouse, and we'd all drop what we were doing and go have a sticky beak. The best one we ever saw was a cement mixer that split the barrel - the two guys inside had to run across the street to the construction hire place and grab Bobcats to dig out the cement before it set, under the watchful eye of the fuzz.
Monty Balboa is a force of nature. The great equaliser. The silent guardian we may not have wanted but so very much need. I hope it never changes.
That's epic. Can't imagine if we had a layer of cement and we lost another few centimetres...
Honestly not trying to be a smartarse just trying to be educating, but It's concrete, only about one quarter of it is cement.
Noice! I thought the coach getting the No.2 haircut was killer, but Mr. Ready-Mix stole the shit out of that thunder!
Me too. I worked 2 Doors from it as a kid. We were close to the bridge. Real Close lol. We'd dragged a bunch of people out of there over the years who got stuck with light trucks. coz we had bigger trucks and heavy equipment that could be utilized for such things. That's before the authorities started giving a shit and turning up.
@@JasonBlack66 that's classic.
THUMP-SMASH
"Better fire up the machine mate, it got another one". 😆
I grew up with my parents running the Golden Fleece hotel, just up the road from the bridge. I lost count of the number of trucks we saw stuck under there. As a kid, telling drivers to deflate their tyres so they could get out was frustrating. "What would you know, kid?" "Enough to know the bridge is 3m, and your truck is 3.1m tall." I think you're bang on target about drivers not knowing the height of their trucks. Often I noticed it was empty trucks getting stuck. They'd come through loaded ok, but then just came back the same way....crash!
i bet you've said this story many times lol Do you change it over the years or is it the same?
@@nikchris69 I guess I could embellish it if I wanted to. I know my kids are bored hearing it!
Yep they were kids then but they grown up to be dickheads.
it a no brain teaser, just common sense deflate the tyres or measure there height and use different route before leaving from where ever.
And it a no brainer council should have a over hang barrier 100 meter before a bridge so the height of the truck hit the barrier indicate it will hit the bridge 🤔
Hope you told them they are the dickheads not thinking.
@@namename6866 VidRoads already does have devices about 100 meters before the bridge, with visual and audible warnings. And yet, people keep plowing into the bridge. Common sense isn't as common as we'd like.
just for comparison: I've got a quite old and unstable highway bridge nearby. It's about to be replaced by two new bridges, but in the meantime the old bridge has to SOMEHOW manage to keep the traffic flowing. To be able to do so, the bridge got a quite harsh speed limit (60kph - on a german Autobahn!) and no vehicle weighing more than 3.5 tonnes is allowed to cross the bridge.
Of course, SEVERAL people used to ignore those signs and warnings. As this caused further and quite immense damage to the bridge, we had to install and enforce more and harsher punishment:
Traffic on the onramps is slowed to 40 and weighed. If a vehicle is above 3.5 tonnes, barriers close, everyone needs to make a full stop, the illegal vehicle is extracted and a 1,000 Euro fine is warranted to the driver.
On the bridge itself, no less but FOUR radar cameras have been installed. If you're dumb enough to be recorded by BOTH in a single pass, you lose your driver's license.
Both of these are announced by SEVERAL signs and quite extensive news coverage in a 20 kilometer radius PLUS on EVERY ramp, exit and junction. But STILL, around 100 trucks a day try their luck to go over the bridge....and are filtered-out and fined.
People are stupid. Plain and simple. Stupid and reckless...
Isn't it a bridge over the Rhine in the Köln area ?
so basically y’all need to step ur game up and fix the damn bridge already
What's its name?
@@Yolwoocle it's the bridge in Leverkusen.
see the whole affair in action:
th-cam.com/video/6n2wvZclRTU/w-d-xo.html
What I don’t understand is: why don’t the government fixes the bridge or build up a new bridge before the old bridge go that bad? I suppose infrastructure condition is under regular inspection 🧐 and the government should have enough time to plan and solve the problem?
The Durham bridge has the best system I could imagine which makes the truck stop for a red light and look at a flashing OVERHEIGHT sign for a solid minute, and they still keep hitting it.
They raised it too and it still didn't help
This one's a bit lower -- 3.0 m = 9 ft 10 in. The Durham bridge was 11 ft 8 in (3.556 m), now 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m).
the sydney STOP sign seems super effective tbh, but also very pricey haha
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv was raised to level the train tracks not to accommodate trucks though, unfortunately.
They have hanging bumpers with the max height written on them at the entrance to every parking garage, I don't see why the 11 ft 8 + 8 bridge can't use one of those
I was driving a medium rigid truck and found myself approaching this bridge in the left hand lane.
I saw the height limit, then checked the height of the truck which was written on the dashboard.
It really was that simple.
I indicated right, and the traffic in the other three lanes almost immediately stopped to let me turn round, which for anyone who has driven in Melbourne will know that is nothing short of miraculous.
When our company got a 3T tray truck, I made the effort to measure the height of the truck unloaded and with our typical tall product and put a sticker on the windscreen. It was only 2.3 metres and 3.2 loaded with our cabinets. We generally don't go near the Montague St bridge at least. We also have to deal with loading docks which have varying height restrictions.
At least the other drivers had the foresight to see you weren't getting under it and made allowances. Stopping and letting you turn for a few seconds is better than the truck getting jammed and holding up traffic for hours. For any truck that sets off the measures, it is best to come to a complete stop before the bridge and then reverse.
The 3 tonne pantech/box trucks are pretty much all too high for this bridge and any area that has signs telling heavy trucks not to enter generally don't have roadside trees trimmed back, so overhead branches hanging out onto the road can rip the roof off like a can opener.
I hired a box truck, set off a flashing sign that said “over height vehicle, must turn” and looked around the cab only to realise that the fucking hire company hadn’t stuck a sticker with the height anywhere inside the vehicle. They of course didn’t give a fuck about this when I mentioned it on returning.
And someone also told me that the “over height vehicle, must turn” sign was broken and would go off for every vehicle over the height of a car. Brilliant.
im suprised to the amount of people who actually knows about this stuff and I'm just here just watching.
Thanks for being a great civilian and turning around!
Geez mate talk about lucky. Good for you
There's a toll bridge in my area and usually people will let trucks into the lanes with higher clearance (some booths are short) if they see them signal, but some people don't seem to notice, and there's usually about 2-3 people getting stuck there per year with a truck or a bus.
I need to see more about the waterfall stop sign in Sydney! That's the coolest thing ever
It's not just for overheight vehicles but also tunnel traffic jams, fires, etc. It's detailed here th-cam.com/video/ImU1mG7QC4I/w-d-xo.html
Thank god it doesn't happen at that bridge then else people would do it on purpose XD
Seattle has them too
The problem is trucks are a lot taller now than they used to be.
@@johnbockelie3899 The real problem is driver unfamiliar with the height of their vehicles.
Here in the US, every truck has it's (unloaded/maximum) height marked on the outside, and tractor-trailer combos have it on the tractor AND the trailers (they can be different).
Keeping mind that a heaped dump truck load can go higher, professional drivers of trucks know their heights, and to a degree, their weights.
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It is the renters of box trucks who can really screw up, and that's even with the vehicle height in huge numbers in the INSIDE of the cab as well.
It really is inexperience and overconfidence combining to make truck repair companies richer.
You're 100% accurate about the issue being hire vans. I'm a Canadian trucker, but we have our own low clearance bridge in my city that gets hit 3 times a year. There are 13 signs on both sides of the bridge, and it's always hit by rental trucks.
That 🌉 needs a 📷 like the one in Raleigh Durham
😂 what timing. Good response by all teams though, that's a plus.
I know, right. People did ask if I really camped there for a few days, but no.
Hired small trucks myself a couple of times, after telling me the height, one thing they made sure to mention was that damage to the 'pan' was not covered by insurance. So those hits would be very expensive for the renters.
Did they have the height embossed on the dashboard? I think that'd be a good idea across the board, obvs it'd vary with tyres etc but I've even seen 4WD smashing into those metal poles at the entrances to low-clearance car parks. I don't see a downside, you'd quickly look at your height and figure out you couldn't make it, plus it'd be cheap as chips.
@@skullsaintdead I haven't hired one for some years, there may have been a label of some kind, it wouldn't be embossed as most start off as a cab/chassis. The emphasis on vehicle height and my liability regarding damage was something I really recall. Returning it with a full tank was up there too, to avoid the refilling fee.
It's not just low bridges or entrances either, tree branches can cause major damage.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 Good point, thanks for the input!
@@skullsaintdead No worries. I note the triskelion - Manxman by chance?
@@michaelmclachlan1650 Indeed, well spotted, it's the Isle of Man triskelion, I'm from Freo but I love it's meaning "Whichever way you throw me, I will stand". I have a necklace with the skelion, love the thing, I'm always appreciative when people notice the symbol but, according to my friend, its 'weird' and 'creepy' because I'm a chick and obviously it sits just atop my cleavage. Whatever, a pair or tits is a pair of tits I say! "Its like the sun, you catch a glimpse of it then look away!".
I'm glad someone's making documentaries along these lines! Melbourne is such an amazing city with such a mix of people and cultures it deserves to have more light shone on these small stories and local legends.
So true - lots of great stories still to come.
I haven’t really been to Melbourne that much come to think of it
I haven’t really been anywhere that much 😄
I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life, there are some good things about Melbourne but mostly it’s a overpopulated shit hole
@@xkimopye 100% disagree with you. Feel free to try life elsewhere!
@@karljenkinson8241 hey you’re not wrong, I have a plan to get out of grey depressing Melbourne, within 5 years I will be out forever.
But I’m far from the only one feeling this way, it seems so many people I know want out too.
Like my mate said “ I look out the window and all I see is concrete”
And yeah that is what Melbourne has become.
Here in the states we have "11 foot 8"
11'8 is a bridge that is, well 11 foot 8 (3.556 meters). it is now 11'8+8, as they raised it. It still is a problen
It's higher than Monty, but it's well known for opening trucks like cans, sometimes tearing rooves clean off
11'-8"+8" since they rose it 8". Still powerful can opener and it wasn't raised to reduce truck issues...
@@ProulxS completely forgot to put that lol
11 foot 8 bridge: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be LEGENDARY!
Love that site!
With the numerous Penske trucks that get stuck under the 11 foot 8 bridge, I always wondered if the truck rental firm wasn't pulling some sort of scam? Had a very Penske-oriented rental contract that earned them shitloads of money every time one of their trucks was peeled?
This was recommended to me and the bridge was hit today. Nature is healing
I went to uni right around the corner and no joke had 3 in a week. My favourite was a tanker of water that cracked open like an eggshell. It was like somebody smashed a giant toilet.
that mustve been amazing lol
@@pilotboi69 yeah, it was a hot day and I remember getting off the 109 seeing all the water and being like "I don't think its been raining.." before I saw the carnage around the corner. There was one large piece laying by itself and I was thinking what the hell is this stuff? Before I saw the truck.
fellow SAE institute student, can confirm i saw this every 3rd day of uni
@@bammaynutterson You went to uni and you say 3nd? Did you graduate?
@@andyg256 3rd... typo
They need to install a camera up there, so we can watch it like American 11' 8" bridge
Great content Julian!
I've lived in Melbourne for almost 20 years now and I gotta say your vids are not only enjoyable but also factual. Mad props
Should definitely make one on laneways & street arts (eg. Hosier or ACDC lane) or maybe even University of Melbourne if they allow you in :p
"this bridge is as high as my self confidence"
can relate
Great video, reminds me of the Bayswater bridge here in Perth. Redevelopment has started and it would be great to see a tribute to the Baysie bridge before it's gone.
If I can get to Perth, I’m on it.
@@JulianOShea Ohh hell yes and do something on the South Freo Power Station, no idea what it's doing just languishing there apart from being pretty a epic venue for metal music videos. Its a good looking building, would make for some nice apartments or even a museum but its been abandoned for decades.
There's even a website counting the dates the bayswater bridge been hit
@@skullsaintdead Pretty sure it was sold to a developer recently. Synergy put out a request for expressions of interest recently and is expected to announce the winning bid in September. Another spot that will soon be lost.
@@Slapfunk79 Thanks for the update, you're spot on. From the Minister in June: "The sale has the potential to allow an experienced developer to transform the site into a contemporary beachside destination, while also maintaining its heritage status."
But we all know how valued historical landmarks are in Perth, so goodness knows what's going to happen to the poor old thing. Fingers crossed they retain its architectural and historical appeal.
What a lovely story. The truck driver that was interviewed brought great amusement to my day. Thank you.
When accidents happen so often, it’s clear that there was a large mistake designing the road and the mitigation for floods. It surprise me that no more drastic measures has been taken, although it would imply less amusement on the neighborhood
I think the main thing preventing drastic change is that all accidents are nonfatal
This was great storytelling and extremely refreshing given our current circumstances! Looking forward to the remainder of the series. Would love an episode on the failed Grollo Tower, Melbourne's attempt at building the world's taller skyscraper at the time.
Thanks so much! - I had to look up Grollo myself, great idea.
@@JulianOShea Just as I mentioned Grollo's failings to build the world's tallest building yesterday, we hear that the company has gone into insolvency Today. Another show of impeccable timing ;)
I used to work near the Montague St bridge. I remember hearing a loud bang and no one battered an eyelid "lol someone hit the bridge again" 😂
I've watched videos of the 11'8 bridge and they get the same reaction from their locals.
the engineer that designed that bridge deserves a pat on the back, he didn't know that trucks in the future were gonna grow to the size where they'd become stuck but he did design a bridge that is as strong as a tank, after being hit so many times and sustaining no damage is a feat unto itself in my book.
The bridge isn't actually hit. The steel protective beams installed after it are.
Really nice of Tom to put this at the end of his video. This is the way to promote quality channels. Thanks.
It makes sense look at the description to toms video, Julian was the camera person for Toms Melbourne coaster video
We have a 10'8" rail bridge in Augusta Ga that even though it is lite up like a Christmas tree signs, large speed bumps, even slots in the roads to make your tire reacts to the sound. It gets hits regularly. Just proving “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
- Frank Zappa
Yep the two most common elements in the universe, Hydrogen and stupidity.
@ Mark Hopkins; The rail bridge that you mention, would that be 11' 8" evil little brother? The one that claimed a lobster truck once upon a time???
@@111jacare wicked awesome lobsta bake in da ca-ya lol not a mass-hole but a neigh-ba of them
Can someone translate this 10’8 stuff into Non-American? A.K.A Centimetres.
As a Melbournian, you have showed me so much about where I live, that I have never truly thought about. Bravo on your good work and keep it up.
I think I just laughed for 7 minutes straight...that was gold!!
Thanks, Tommy!
Aussie Politicians tell it as it is!
On your 7th “here” presentation of the warning signs- there’s actually another two signs in shot, you may cover them separately in other shots, but it just goes to highlight that when approaching the bridge - they’ve put in a lot of effort to make sure you have to be intentionally ignorant to be caught under that bridge.
Not to mention- the amount of times its mentioned you’d think trucks themselves would stall in fear if anyone were to even whisper Monty around them.
There’s a rail bridge near me that used to suffer the same fate and they solved the problem by closing it off to traffic. There’s signage warning of a low bridge but there’s also a curve in the road and two bridges close to each other and drivers must have thought they’d made it after successfully going under the first one (which is also classed as a low bridge).
This was Brilliant, Julian! Very well explained and great story telling, you had my attention from start to finish.
This popped up on my recommendations - great channel and very timely, especially now allowing us to still explore our marvellous city when we can’t travel more than 5kms.
5:39 I had a feeling this would happen?
Great video as always Julian!!
Thanks, mate.
3:15 I wish my local politicians were this brutally honest
That’s standard English in Australia
This is great! Also amazing how you were in the right spot and the right time to catch that one
Oh my god tell me why I cannot stop hysterically laughing at this whole video.
Glad you enjoyed it, Ali!
I love the idea of a wall of water and a projector on it. Reminds me of the Vivid Light and Sound festival in Sydney in winter.
I remember when I first got my MR licence 20 years ago. I didn't know the area and found myself approaching that bridge. Kept trying to turn around but traffic was a nightmare.
Thing is I knew the height of my truck and knew I was well under but I still was packing myself and did a u-ie anyway. Haha.
This is wonderful. Fascinating history, and just amazing that you were there to witness an accident.
It’s so great to see a channel focused on Melbourne stuff. Sometimes it’s hard to find channels focused on any of Australia
if anything the only other really really famous aussie youtubers either play video games or drop a lot of objects from a- very specific tower
Lol i love that Australia has its own 11foot8! My favorite thing about these famous bridges that destroys so many trucks is when trucks try to squeeze under by lowering their suspension... and get stuck halfway hahaha
Oh I Love this Julian!!! Can’t stop from laughing. Love the dramatic music and thank you for put the subtitles on.
Glad you liked it! I'm planning on putting subtitles on all the vids.
@@JulianOShea fully accessible!! Awesome. When will you do a show next time? Last time was a year ago!!!
I use to work for the company that made the soft-stop in Sydney. I don't know the exact price, but I can tell you it would have cost a lot more then the MSB paddles.
That bridge gets hit all the time because for trucks it’s the best road for getting through Melbourne. If you don’t know the area it’s really hard getting around the bridge. It’s a royal pain in the proverbial. They NEED to raise the bridge it’s a no brainer. It will stop the incidences and free up traffic around the city in a big way.
Had this vid rec'd at the end of Tom Scott's vid about the manual-brake rollercoaster at Luna Park Melb, and as a Rural NSW ('about 110km outta Wagga) that grew up next to Canberra, I had a good laugh at how stupid some people can be driving vans and trucks when not used to them.
That bit at the end with you being on-scene to record yet another driver encountering MSB was the cherry on the cake! XD
And it happened again! Ahhh Melbourne bounces back from lockdown once again.
We’re back, baby!
@@JulianOShea Thank you for your videos Julian - keep them coming legend!
The guy who downvoted was the truck driver haha!
Great video mate!!
I am so happy that we have our own 11' 8"+8" bridge
We had one of these bridges in my small german hometown too, even delivery trucks and the ambulance would get stuck under it when they drove at the sides. Before 6 years they finally lowered the road and now everythingfits through it.
We have one here in Perth also (in Bayswater), although the area is being redeveloped and it wont be an issue for much longer. Its victims website was apparently inspired by one from the Melbourne bridge: howmanydayssincebayswaterbridgehasbeenhit.com/
I took a self-drive tour of Bavaria and northern Austria a few years ago and travelled a lot of back roads, as the rural countryside is beautiful. Coming from a harbour city (Sydney), I was continually dumbfounded at the density of heavy vehicle traffic negotiating its way down narrow roads, over/under tiny bridges, through towns with roads barely wide enough for two cars to pass, through roundabouts and town squares. Everything arrives by truck, and there's simply no other route leading to many of these places. It was quite eye-opening.
Yes they could have put the bridge up half a metre, gouged the road out half a metre over 100 metres.....
I pass by this brigde with a truck while working pretty much everyday and I always fear of hitting it hahaha it was great to know the story of this brigde, thanks for that 🙏🏼
Same thing when ignoring all warnings and signs at level crossings and just go past the boom gates and get hit by the train especially in the South East suburbs like Clayton. This is why level crossings in Melbourne are getting removed.
Love this series even though I'm in Brisbane. It's like a combination of The Tim Traveller and Jay Foreman, just more serious.
They’re quality TH-camrs - so thanks!
I remember 17+ years ago being on a school camp in Melbourne and our bus hit this bridge and got wedged under it. Our bus driver was a mad bitch and was so sour the rest of our trip.
Probably because she knew she would be out of a job, when she got back. That can be a sackable incident.
Love your content man, pretty funny how you saw someone hitting the bridge while you were filming.
Monty had another bridge strike yesterday. The offender was a furniture box truck.
How has this channel not got more subs? Great content!
Great question! - Time to force all your family, friends and neighbours to watch and subscribe. That’s what I do.
You visited Monty for like an hour and you saw a hit? I've worked nearby for almost five years and the closest I've come to seeing one is seeing a truck getting towed around the corner afterwards 😅
Sure did. I do have a theory that more trucks hit it than we know - as in they get in and out without stopping. Maybe grab a lawn chair, a drink and see how the afternoon goes.
I APPRECIATE THE 20 HOURS YOU PUT INTO THIS
You know it!
3:15 That's what I love about our Australian brothers and sisters: a government minister who will call people dickheads. They took the best from here in UK, removed the rod from the arse, and improved everything else.
The minister using the word 'dickhead' in a quote is peak Aussie and I'm here for it
*Leaking tap overflowing a sink onto the floor*
Victorian government:
"Put up wet floor signs!"
"Mop up the water!"
"Dont do anything about the leak!"
Not really a perfect comparison. Truck drivers are 100% responsible for hitting the bridge. The amount of signage should tell anybody who doesn't know their vehicle height not to enter!
I once drove into an underground parking garage. I saw the bumper. I slowed to less than 5 km/h. It struck. I reversed out. Problem solved.
If you don't know your vehicle height and see a sign saying a height that your vehicle could be reasonably assumed to be lower than, you turn around.
What great timing!
It really was. Or maybe there are more even more incidents than we know about.
There are a few similar bridges where I used to live on the Sunshine Coast Qld.
I just lost count of the number of trucks who do this same thing on a regular basis.
I noticed that one bridge in town built structures both sides of the bridge so that when a truck collides it will hit the structure first and prevent damage to the actual bridge and the train line the travels over it.
Good videos dude, your a great story teller. Subbed for sure.
From a town planning perspective, I would have liked to see you explore wha impact the proximity of Monty to the West Gate Bridge and Kings Way has on the amount of heavy vehicles that frequent the area but otherwise great video keep it up!
It's less likely really heavy vehicles, and more likely light trucks, doing commercial stuff.
That was very interesting Julian!
Julian> "So I really wanted to experience this for myself"
..us waiting for him to rent a truck and drive under.
4:07 In the US, rental trucks usually have a big sticker stating how high the vehicle is inside the cabin. Do they not do that in Australia?
This is fantastic. Keep up the good work.
in my country, we have metal poles attached horizontally by chains to the entrance of underground carparks, to let driver know the clearance of the ceiling. I think they should do it here instead of rubber, like one of the driver said in the video it is rubber it would not be as effective. A metal pole on chains would not cause much damage at slow speeds, maybe a small dent, it beats your roof being ripped open.
The issue of a metal pole would be it can cause significant damage at high speed, to solve that add a hump right before the metal pole so drivers have to slow down right before.
ahah i think every country has that. i live in melbourne and everywhere you go that is their, even in the apartments, shoppingcentres, mansions with underground parking has that
Once lived on the grey building next to that bridge - it was staggering how many accidents we would both hear and see. And even now that it continues with the countless safety protocols in place is hilarious. It's a good idiot-meter, that's for sure!
I worked in an office about 200 yards from the bridge around 1990. Trucks would regularly crash into the bridge. No fatalities while I was there but many drivers weren't wise enough to wear a seat belt and came out pretty dazed after hitting the windshield. The first time it happened while I was there, one of my coworkers came running into the room to check it out. Then he updated the 'log' - a sheet of paper next to the window with a hand-written list of truck types and dates of their crash. There were about 20 entries on the list. It was a pretty regular thing and probably has been for the last thirty years as well! Seems once the city put the heavy beam in front of the bridge they were done. Just leave the rest to the insurance companies.
So, is it time to dig an underpass with more headroom yet???
I'm amazed that when they converted it into a light rail line, they didn't replace the bridge with one that had decent clearance. A light rail can climb sharper gradients than a normal rail line, and it wouldn't have needed to be that sharp. When they built the tramway in south London in the late 90s, they removed two low bridges that had been sitting there since the old line had closed twenty years earlier that prevented double-deck buses from running through a whole section of town, and lowered the line so that it crossed by a level crossing.
I named my first born after this bridge.
Low Clearance 3.0 Metres? :)
I had a feeling I'd find your comment down here somewhere!
2:46 Your Link impression was on point
The stars aligned to give you the most perfect of filming opportunities at the bridge.
The fact that you were there WHEN SOMEONE SMASHED INTO THE BRIDGE is amazing.
Reminds me of the 11' 8" bridge in Durham North Carolina. Nicked name the can opener, mostly box trucks get stuck or have their tops shaved off. Also, the bridge is owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway and below the bridge is a sewer line.
I rented the truck we used to move from a few blocks away from there. Hadn't driven a truck before, hadn't heard of the bridge before. Very glad I avoided it, and why on earth is the truck rental place right there 😅
You might be interested in the Norfolk Southern-Gregson Street Overpass in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Also known as the 11'-8"+8" or "the canopener" this bridge also services rail traffic and people hit it all the time. So much so the TH-camr yovo68 is dedicated to crashes recorded on multiple cameras. The bridge was 11 foot 8 inches tall, the locals installed a crash bar, then an electronic warning system telling oversized vehicles to turn, and finally raised the whole thing by 8 inches. Even with all of that, all the warning, and even the fact there is a traffic light before it. People still hit the thing.
I really like your vids. They give a quirky and interesting view on SA and Vic.
6:53 The universal sign for "show me your ID" used by police the world over.
I don't think it actually was, he is taking about how much of a clearance there must have been for the first bridge or something
@@EverythingYouNeedToKnowEYN2K You could be right. Ta.
I've hit that bridge myself in my own van. That was back in the late '70's. Luckily it only broke my aerial off (my truck was 2.95m high). It's easy to be distracted when you're running late with still plenty of deliveries to do, someone is trying to contact you on the two-way, you're not familiar with the area etc. The bridge wasn't nearly as well defended then
I used to work on Kings Way so I wasn’t far from the bridge. I could see the traffic from my window. One day I saw a truck driving past and the top of it was rolled back just like an open sardine can. I’m guessing it had made it under the bridge but had come away second best
melbourne 2021 lockdown ended, and no joke the bridge got hit again.
I'm a photographer in Melbourne and one of my photos was an ad on the side of one of the trucks that got stuck. Thanks for showing it, had a good laugh at that again.
That’s gold. Cheers!
@@JulianOShea. Great content. Would highly recommend you get a good quality wide-to-zoom lens for your channel if you don't have one already. You could have zoomed in on the spontaneous action for a different perspective as it happened. Good luck.
I don't know how that rubber hose system could have cost AU$800k, the water screen projection is a genious solution though. Can't miss that unless you're driving blind, and technically should be fairly cheap. Like, it should be possible to build a prototype for less than $1000 in parts - although hooking it up to a water and power supply, labor and making it reliable as well as resilient is a different beast entirely of course.
I loved your excitement when you called 000. Like you've been waiting for this moment all of your life. Dry comedy Gold !
Thanks mate!
Earned a like for capturing the stuck truck... LOL
I was a dock coordinator in Port Melbourne and had a truck driver destroy a semitrailer on that bridge. He was was a van driver and this was his first time driving a truck in five years. Fun times.
there's a 3.7m bridge out in newmarket which the 57 tram line goes under and I remember often being late to school because a truck had gotten stuck and the tram couldn't go through
So was a Tour bus driver for a while in Melbourne pre Covid. Google puts you down this road ALL the time. BUT you can SEE the bridge is SO LOW. And you really have plenty of side roads to take if you end up driving towards the bridge. I can't understand why it still gets hit!
6:13, done himself a mischief there lol
When you see that many signs for something, you know the one who screwed up is the traffic engineers. If your response to people who don't read signs is to put up more of the same exact signs, you're not gonna get anywhere.
Lol here in Cape Town South Africa, we have a famous bridge in Muizenberg that the locals has nicknamed "Bridget" that is always snacking on trucks. The bridge has loads of warning signs and sensors that's flash lights if your vehicles is to high.
Bridges like this truly are a joy
Ah, so Austria’s a can opener too! Ours used to be 11’ 8”, but somehow they managed to squeeze an extra 8” by raising the bridge. It still gets hit, even with the extra height and a warning system that stops traffic at a red light and flashes a sign that says “OVERHIGHT / MUST TURN”, lol.
In case you've forgotten, Melbourne is in Australia, not Austria.
“Not really, just kidding” killed me
I actually had to go back a couple seconds when you said that Sidney had a water wall stop sign! Because I didn’t believe that it was really a thing! I search it on TH-cam and sure enough it’s real and looks really cool and interesting!
With such truck drivers who can't absorb the warning message of an upcoming obstacle, .. I now see why a pandemic also spreads.
As someone who works for a rental agency, the height of the vehicle is always visible on the upper part of the windscreen in the drivers view.
Plus any good agent should be informing renters the height of the vehicle they are renting. That being said, renters do let unauthorised people drive the vehicles who probably have no idea what's going on