Mattoon police arrested a 36-year-old Illinois man for giving officers a fake name, despite having his real name tattooed on his neck.
Matthew C. Bushman, of Mansfield, had a warrant out for his arrest when officers booked him on Oct. 11 for obstructing justice. A police mugshot shows the “Matty B” tattoo across his throat.
Of course the road is not closed yet so there is always a chance for another truck or some moron with a rental thinking their is bragging rights in being the bridge's last truck.
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I am deeply curious about who finally agreed to pay the bill. Maybe the same company insuring the rail line/bridge also insured many of the victims trucks and they were tired of paying both ways? I doubt we will ever know the truth but I would have loved to be in on that meeting.
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In my area there was a crossing about 100 feet from a major intersection that kept causing huge traffic snarls every time a train passed. (This area has a ton of at-grade crossings)
They eventually got tired of this and dug out an underpass. It surely cost tens of millions but it was worth it.
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They're raising the rail, because apparently that's cheaper than lowering the underpass (since there is a sewage pipe under there and lowering that one would require lowering the whole sewage system.
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The most recent crash hit it REAL hard, like it actually lifted the rails briefly and I don't think I've ever seen one do that before. I wonder if that had anything to do with it
The most recent crash hit it REAL hard, like it actually lifted the rails briefly and I don't think I've ever seen one do that before. I wonder if that had anything to do with it
Yeah, that probably has everything to do with it. Once the repair bill hits a significant percentage of the cost to raise the bridge you might as well raise it.
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The most recent crash hit it REAL hard, like it actually lifted the rails briefly and I don't think I've ever seen one do that before. I wonder if that had anything to do with it
I'd have fined every person who hit it and put it towards paying to raise it. Once the number of idiots hits critical mass, you have a funded solution.
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I feel that the only proper way to send off the bridge is with a 21 U-Haul salute.
I've read about the features around the bridge and it saps my hope for the future that it still got hit.
There's bars that will hit your vehicle like in drive thru windows, and if you trigger one here light changes to red and a sign lights up that says, "OVER HEIGHT MUST TURN!" This is why in videos so many vehicles are running a red light before hitting it - you either have to run he light or sit for like five minutes with a flashing sign telling you that you're going to hit the bridge before the system decides if you're that determined to crank up your insurance who are they to judge.
The system sometimes fails though because you can hit the bar and pass it, ending the overheight warning, while sitting at the red light. Then it turns green with no warning.
There kind of comes a point though where it doesn't matter how well designed your prevention system is if it's still being bypassed to this degree. At a point the worry shifts to the drivers around these accidents, the ones slamming on their brakes so they don't slam into the now suddenly stopped truck. At the end of the day, the universal truth is that this overpass is still incredibly poorly designed and a danger, and no amount of added warnings and protections have worked.
It's a shame, but there's a litany of evidence that shows nothing they were doing was actually working.
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I've read about the features around the bridge and it saps my hope for the future that it still got hit.
There's bars that will hit your vehicle like in drive thru windows, and if you trigger one here light changes to red and a sign lights up that says, "OVER HEIGHT MUST TURN!" This is why in videos so many vehicles are running a red light before hitting it - you either have to run he light or sit for like five minutes with a flashing sign telling you that you're going to hit the bridge before the system decides if you're that determined to crank up your insurance who are they to judge.
On the other hand, you get enough people doing something, and somebody's going to mess it up. That's why those stickers on fruit are made to be edible. Raising the height to the standard 12' was always the correct solution, it's just that there's wasn't the money for it until now.
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I've read about the features around the bridge and it saps my hope for the future that it still got hit.
There's bars that will hit your vehicle like in drive thru windows, and if you trigger one here light changes to red and a sign lights up that says, "OVER HEIGHT MUST TURN!" This is why in videos so many vehicles are running a red light before hitting it - you either have to run he light or sit for like five minutes with a flashing sign telling you that you're going to hit the bridge before the system decides if you're that determined to crank up your insurance who are they to judge.
On the other hand, you get enough people doing something, and somebody's going to mess it up. That's why those stickers on fruit are made to be edible. Raising the height to the standard 12' was always the correct solution, it's just that there's wasn't the money for it until now.
What? And here I've been wasting time peeling the stickers off my apples like a fool.
I've read about the features around the bridge and it saps my hope for the future that it still got hit.
There's bars that will hit your vehicle like in drive thru windows, and if you trigger one here light changes to red and a sign lights up that says, "OVER HEIGHT MUST TURN!" This is why in videos so many vehicles are running a red light before hitting it - you either have to run he light or sit for like five minutes with a flashing sign telling you that you're going to hit the bridge before the system decides if you're that determined to crank up your insurance who are they to judge.
On the other hand, you get enough people doing something, and somebody's going to mess it up. That's why those stickers on fruit are made to be edible. Raising the height to the standard 12' was always the correct solution, it's just that there's wasn't the money for it until now.
What? And here I've been wasting time peeling the stickers off my apples like a fool.
They aren't edible just non toxic.
In other words it's going to taste like plastic and you'll poop them out :P
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I now have a lifelong ambition to poop out a turd with a perfectly placed fruit sticker on its side
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On the one hand it's about fucking time
On the other hand *pours our a single drink of a 40*
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They eventually got tired of this and dug out an underpass. It surely cost tens of millions but it was worth it.
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They're raising the rail, because apparently that's cheaper than lowering the underpass (since there is a sewage pipe under there and lowering that one would require lowering the whole sewage system.
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Yeah, that probably has everything to do with it. Once the repair bill hits a significant percentage of the cost to raise the bridge you might as well raise it.
It's about damn time.
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Bravo, I was more just insinuating him being a native Scotsman raised in Austrailia and prone to violence.
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There's bars that will hit your vehicle like in drive thru windows, and if you trigger one here light changes to red and a sign lights up that says, "OVER HEIGHT MUST TURN!" This is why in videos so many vehicles are running a red light before hitting it - you either have to run he light or sit for like five minutes with a flashing sign telling you that you're going to hit the bridge before the system decides if you're that determined to crank up your insurance who are they to judge.
It's a shame, but there's a litany of evidence that shows nothing they were doing was actually working.
On the other hand, you get enough people doing something, and somebody's going to mess it up. That's why those stickers on fruit are made to be edible. Raising the height to the standard 12' was always the correct solution, it's just that there's wasn't the money for it until now.
What? And here I've been wasting time peeling the stickers off my apples like a fool.
They aren't edible just non toxic.
In other words it's going to taste like plastic and you'll poop them out :P
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