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Re:City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians by 0cf8612b2e1e on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:08PM (#36960975)
At some point, you would think they would lower the road beneath the bridge.
Re:City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians by tialaramex on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:21PM (#36961181)
The road there is stuck. Raising the railway, which has been done once already, is very expensive. Lowering the road would require moving a sewer main, which is a fairly delicate and also expensive job. Both railway and sewer are very old and substantially pre-date the modern assumption that you can just drive trucks wherever you want as if that's some basic element of civilisation rather than a weird temporary glitch.
Re:City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians by opwieurposiu on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:22PM (#36961183)
Apparently there is a gravity-flow sewer underneath the road, making it very difficult to go any lower.
Re:City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians by mschuster91 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:01PM (#36961848)
At some point it becomes cheaper to install a lift pump and a pressurized section for the sewage than to constantly have crashes to clean up and disrupt service.
Re:City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians by doikor on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:35PM (#36962396)
That point is very far away as long as you can bill the costs of the cleanup/fixing to someone else (of their insurances).
Re:City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians by dghlsakjg on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:09PM (#36962984)
The people that pay for new sewers (the utilities) are not the same people that pay for crashes and closures (driver's insurance companies).