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Post by Telemachus on Aug 26, 2018 11:12:02 GMT
Last year on the KandA we ended up with a car on an electric swing bridge as we were opening it. Despite the usual audio warning, flashing lights and warning signs a car accelerated onto the bridge as the barriers were coming down, just missing the first one by inches but then becoming stuck on the bridge between the 2 barriers. If it had been me, I would have just continued to swing the bridge but Jeff being much nicer than me, reversed the process to let the car off. Stupid car drivers.
I’ve just operated the Shirley draw bridge (N Stratford canal). Wait til no cars visible, press the open button. Lots of alarms sounding, flashing warning lights for 10 seconds or so etc. Barriers start to come down and at that instant car whizzes out of the small side road adjacent to the bridge (which has its own set of warning lights and flashing illuminated “Danger. Stop” sign - I checked). Barrier hits windscreen / front of roof. I release button, car backs up, I press button again to open bridge. Surprisingly there was no damage to car as far as I could see from across the bridge, although driver didn’t get out and studiously avoided eye contact with me! However barrier is slightly bent up so it now doesn’t properly rest in the cup when down, and the support wire (which is hooked on) no longer tight so it disconnects. CRT notified. Unfortunately it was pissing down with rain and I didn’t record the car reg.
What a dozy idiot. Just as well there wasn’t a small child standing on the bridge, they’d have got squished.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 11:18:25 GMT
The number of times cars race the barriers, I suppose it had to happen eventually.
Am I a bad person for wishing it had cracked their windscreen he he
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Post by pearley on Aug 26, 2018 11:21:26 GMT
At least the bridge still works fir boaters. A lot if those lift and swing bridges in the North have switches in those cups/rests to interlock the closed barriers with the opening of the bridge
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 26, 2018 11:30:57 GMT
At least the bridge still works fir boaters. A lot if those lift and swing bridges in the North have switches in those cups/rests to interlock the closed barriers with the opening of the bridge Well that’s a good point, I didn’t try to open it again. But as far as I could see there were not that type of interlock switches on that bridge. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 26, 2018 11:37:20 GMT
What a dozy idiot. Just as well there wasn’t a small child standing on the bridge, they’d have got squished.  |
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Post by Jim on Aug 26, 2018 15:17:43 GMT
We award you 100 points in the Stopped vehicles bridge game for that one.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 26, 2018 15:21:26 GMT
I think that's why I like the river Hull so much ....... lots of bridges that have to be opened (manned bridges) lots of main roads that get blocked  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 15:42:59 GMT
I think that's why I like the river Hull so much ....... lots of bridges that have to be opened (manned bridges) lots of main roads that get blocked There is still time to train as a power hungry traffic cop! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 15:58:52 GMT
I think that's why I like the river Hull so much ....... lots of bridges that have to be opened (manned bridges) lots of main roads that get blocked There is still time to train as a power hungry traffic cop! I see stabby doing that, not a cop as such but the wombles, the ones that shut the motorway because a car has broke down in the hard shoulder. Can just see him crushing past them in his truck, envy in his eye ... one day stabby, one day. |
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Post by JohnV on Aug 26, 2018 16:08:20 GMT
I think that's why I like the river Hull so much ....... lots of bridges that have to be opened (manned bridges) lots of main roads that get blocked There is still time to train as a power hungry traffic cop!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 16:16:14 GMT
Probably my one claim to fame...
I once got mentioned on national radio for stopping traffic on the M4.
It was my first walk from John O'Groats to Land's End and my route took me across the Severn Bridge (now the old bridge). The bridge has a walkway level with the traffic and the local Welsh Pipe Band had suggested they 'Pipe' me across back into England. Well an Idiot with a rucksack, preceded by a bunch of people wearing skirts and making a dreadful din, on effectively the hard shoulder, had the obvious (if we had thought about it!) effect of getting people to slow down to see what is going on!
Idiots!!
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Post by patty on Aug 26, 2018 17:35:10 GMT
Probably my one claim to fame...
I once got mentioned on national radio for stopping traffic on the M4.
It was my first walk from John O'Groats to Land's End and my route took me across the Severn Bridge (now the old bridge). The bridge has a walkway level with the traffic and the local Welsh Pipe Band had suggested they 'Pipe' me across back into England. Well an Idiot with a rucksack, preceded by a bunch of people wearing skirts and making a dreadful din, on effectively the hard shoulder, had the obvious (if we had thought about it!) effect of getting people to slow down to see what is going on!
Idiots!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 18:58:17 GMT
There is still time to train as a power hungry traffic cop! I see stabby doing that, not a cop as such but the wombles, the ones that shut the motorway because a car has broke down in the hard shoulder. Can just see him crushing past them in his truck, envy in his eye ... one day stabby, one day. is a proper yorkie munching big wheel driving knight of the road. As such he should have a pathological hatred of the traffic wombles. I can't see him becoming poacher turned gamekeeper. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 26, 2018 19:16:02 GMT
I see stabby doing that, not a cop as such but the wombles, the ones that shut the motorway because a car has broke down in the hard shoulder. Can just see him crushing past them in his truck, envy in his eye ... one day stabby, one day. is a proper yorkie munching big wheel driving knight of the road. As such he should have a pathological hatred of the traffic wombles. I can't see him becoming poacher turned gamekeeper. Nah, Wombles are fine, very helpful if you break down in an artic somewhere awkward. I wouldn't want to be one, the money they are on has been mentioned by a couple of guys who work for them on TruckNet and it's absolute crap. Like about half as much as I can get driving a truck where all I really have to do is listen to the radio and scratch my bollocks. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 19:24:49 GMT
At the same time? And some say drivers aren't skilled  Rog |
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