It’s worth knowing a few fun facts, courtesy of 11foot8.com:

• They can’t raise the bridge because it’s a train trestle, and raising it would require closing and modifying miles of busy track.
• They can’t lower the road because it’s directly over a sewer main.
• They can’t ban trucks entirely because there are too many local deliveries.
• That section of road has a speed limit of 25 mph, numerous signs alerting drivers to the 11'8" limit, and recently they added a sensor that activates the stoplight and a flashing “overheight warning” sign so that drivers have to stop and think really hard about going forward.
• The clearance is actually nearly three inches more than 11'8", the maximum deviation from the signage allowed.
• Trucks have been getting stuck or damaged since the 1960s.

The guy who runs the website (and owns the cameras) says he sees a lot more trucks pull up to the stoplight, look at the warnings, and turn off onto the side road, but about once a month, someone hits the bridge.

the penske business is probably sick of this shit

Since all the information is from 2017, here some updates from April 2022 according the website 11foot8.com

• The bridge was finally raised in October 2019 to a new clearance height of 12 feet and 4 inches (though the actual height is 12 feet 8 inches, measured by the webmaster himself). The road was open again to traffic on November 5, 2019.
• The first truck struck the new crash beam on November 26, 2019.
• In acknowledgement of the new height, the website now calls it the 11 foot 8+8.
• He also calls the bridge “the Canopener”
• Despite clearance being a whole 8 inches higher, trucks still strike the clearance bar.
• If you want to support him, he has a Patreon and a store where he sometimes sells art made from the debris. Both are linked off his website.

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