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The Bridge that eats trucks

I have been feasting on your human concoctions for decades. Your wheeled steel boxes are quite delicious. Please feed me more!

Despite the warning signs and flashing lights, trucks just canโ€™t seem to stop hitting a Kansas City, Missouri, overpass.

The bridge on Independence Avenue is struck so often that it has its own satirical Facebook page.

With just 12 feet of clearance, itโ€™s not quite enough for todayโ€™s box trucks and tractor trailers whose drivers too often donโ€™t realize their rigs are just a little too tall to make it.

The Kansas City Terminal Railway Company owns the bridge and says it gets hit about twice a month. However, they can not lower the road because of utility lines. The Bridge that eats trucks is just going to continue to eat.

 

 

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