Olive Road bridge to stay closed to prevent Masters Week crashes
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Why can’t they simply put a height sensor up on each side of the bridge and put a big safety red flashing light on the overpass that say you must turn of and use an alternative route is the vehicle you are driving exceeds 9 feet. Your could even add an alarm perhaps.
I’ve said many many times, put up a reinforced beam on both sides to peel’em back before they hit the bridge.
High water table? Okay do some drainage lines on both sides of the road. Lower the road 5 feet. Problem solved. Come on Augusta, your engineers need to go back to school. Problem is no one wants to take this challenge on. Unbelievable!
The bridge is an IQ test.
LOL
Clearly!
Never give IQ test in Augusta/Richmond.
So people who can read and follow directions suffer because we don’t want to risk people from out of town hitting it? Over 80% of the hits are from local people. Come on!
So our fearless leaders actually considered throwing $5-$6 million at The Boathouse when any homeless squatter could have looked at that building and correctly determined it would be better to raze it. Any senior-year Civil Engineering major at UGA or GA Tech could make the Olive Road Bridge a capstone project that would fix the clearance and drainage issues for less than fixing The Boathouse. Maybe certain commissioners don’t want it fixed so they can keep paying Wayne Brown to defend lawsuits against ARC.
Correction: …keep paying Wayne Brown’s legal subcontractors to defend…
Wait, what? Our fearless leaders have now decided to close the bridge temporarily to prevent accidents during Masters Week? What science went into that decree? That is answering a question that has never been asked because there has likely never been a crash during past Masters Weeks.
City could start a betting “pool” on the day and time of the next impact. Proceeds would go to the repairs.
Complete insanity to be discussing this in 2023. Looks like a government issue if I’ve ever seen one. I’m 66 now and cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard about collisions there. At least one death as well. Use some federal influence if you have any at all. Stupid,stupid to delay action.