A5 Hinckley bridge may have road lowered…
They could have saved all that money by sending drivers on competence courses to make them more professional…that would definitely work and sort the drivers from the steerers.
Oh hang on a minute. 
No need to go that far, you just have a series of gantries in advance of the bridge with big thick chains of the requisite length hanging down, smacking into them will make such a noise, matey-boy will drop his phone and wake TF up
Or there’s this great idea from Oz
youtu.be/ImU1mG7QC4I?t=1
Zac_A:
No need to go that far, you just have a series of gantries in advance of the bridge with big thick chains of the requisite length hanging down, smacking into them will make such a noise, matey-boy will drop his phone and wake TF upOr there’s this great idea from Oz
youtu.be/ImU1mG7QC4I?t=1
Yes of course can put chain,metal frame.But there was builded plenty DC,plenty double decker needed but still low bridge at strategic road.Make lower road don t need to much money.
Andrejs:
Zac_A:
No need to go that far, you just have a series of gantries in advance of the bridge with big thick chains of the requisite length hanging down, smacking into them will make such a noise, matey-boy will drop his phone and wake TF upOr there’s this great idea from Oz
youtu.be/ImU1mG7QC4I?t=1Yes of course can put chain,metal frame.But there was builded plenty DC,plenty double decker needed but still low bridge at strategic road.Make lower road don t need to much money.
Have a word with someone who works in road construction, you’ll be surprised how much a bit of road costs. In the meantime, check this article, apparently building (and I would suggest digging a road a foot or two deeper is definitely “building”) costs £10,000,000 per mile. They aren’t going to lower a road just under the bridge and 20 metres either side, it’s going to be at least a few hundred metres, so you’re looking at nothing less than a seven figure sum. Gantries with chains aren’t going to cost anywhere near that much
To get a good job done quick and cheap you need the guy who lowered the road on Crayford Creek Road in SE London. apparently he dug it out, concreted it and resurfaced the road in a weekend before the authories found out 'cos they wanted to charge him an arm and several legs to put a road in from the other side to his recycling centre. Main line goes over the top and nobody knows what to do about it. It’s about 20 years since and it’s still standing strong. Scares the beejabus out of you first time thru 'cos the sign still says something like 12 ft restriction!
Worth a look on google earth-I don’t know how to cut and paste onto here, perhaps someone else can.
Beau Nydel:
To get a good job done quick and cheap you need the guy who lowered the road on Crayford Creek Road in SE London. apparently he dug it out, concreted it and resurfaced the road in a weekend before the authories found out 'cos they wanted to charge him an arm and several legs to put a road in from the other side to his recycling centre. Main line goes over the top and nobody knows what to do about it. It’s about 20 years since and it’s still standing strong. Scares the beejabus out of you first time thru 'cos the sign still says something like 12 ft restriction!
Worth a look on google earth-I don’t know how to cut and paste onto here, perhaps someone else can.
I got told DPD the local Hub offered a huge sum of money years ago to lower the road so they could run their double deckers through there but the council refused. They must of thought it would be cost effective enough with fuel and time saving.
MrFaulconbridge:
I got told DPD the local Hub offered a huge sum of money years ago to lower the road so they could run their double deckers through there but the council refused. They must of thought it would be cost effective enough with fuel and time saving.
This is true,
Then a few years later when more industrial estates were planned, the council came back to DPD and said, yes lets do the road and DPD refused and said, get money off the other companies as well who will benefit from the height restriction being reduced!
beefy4605:
Beau Nydel:
To get a good job done quick and cheap you need the guy who lowered the road on Crayford Creek Road in SE London. apparently he dug it out, concreted it and resurfaced the road in a weekend before the authories found out 'cos they wanted to charge him an arm and several legs to put a road in from the other side to his recycling centre. Main line goes over the top and nobody knows what to do about it. It’s about 20 years since and it’s still standing strong. Scares the beejabus out of you first time thru 'cos the sign still says something like 12 ft restriction!
Worth a look on google earth-I don’t know how to cut and paste onto here, perhaps someone else can.
Thanks Beefy-knew someone would have the knowledge!