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INFRASTRUCTURES * USA - Low bridge, tall trucks: tin-can alley
The railroad bridge over East Main Street in Westborough stands 12 feet, 6 inches above the road surface. A typical tractor-trailer truck stands 13 feet, 6 inches tall. Therein lies the problem Boston,Mass,USA -The Boston Globe, by John Dyer -February 7, 2008: -- ... Roughly five times a month, police respond to tractor-trailer trucks either hitting the steel bridge or stopping just before they hit it, Police Chief Alan Gordon said. Although Gordon and other town officials are discussing ways to decrease incidents at the bridge - such as installing new, large signs like the ones that warn truckers not to enter Boston's Storrow Drive - they acknowledge there isn't much they can do if big-rig drivers try their luck with the span and its owner, the CSX Corp., doesn't replace it... Robert Sullivan, a spokesman for CSX, said the Florida-based railroad giant has no plans to replace the 1921 bridge, a project that could cost millions and would require tearing up and adjusting extensive amounts of rail bed to align the grade of a new bridge with the tracks on either side of it... (Photo by Joanne Rathe - A driver double-checks his truck’s clearance at the East Main Street bridge in Westborough)
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