The Whitestone Bridge is closed!

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Traffic is spilling over to the Throgs Neck Bridge, and to all parts of North Queens.

What a flipping NIGHTMARE...

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH...........

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Traffic is spilling over to the Throgs Neck Bridge, and to all parts of North Queens.

What a flipping NIGHTMARE...

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH...........

why is it closed?

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

It was closed as early as 1:45 this afternoon when I was on my way home from the city, the digital signs said it was closed due to an accident. Must've been horrendous.

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it appears that there were only two minor injuries -- miraculous!


SIGN COLLAPSE CLOSES WHITESTONE BRIDGE - New York Post

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

Some maintenance truck managed to knock over an everhead sign that fell across the entire roadway.

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Yikes!

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

EEEEkkkkk!

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

Yikes!

EEEEkkkkk!

Seriously. Talk about a picture saying a thousand words. These would all be expletives...

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I didn't know this--a friend of mine told me why a lot of those "truck hitting signs" and "truck hitting top of tunnel" and "truck hitting underpass" things happen. (Because I always thought, what the heck, these truck drivers think the signs that give the clearance height are lying????)

Friend says this happens when they resurface the road. They leave the old clearance-height signs up, but now the ROAD is two inches higher. So now the truck that could have made it, can't make it anymore.

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

I didn't know this--a friend of mine told me why a lot of those "truck hitting signs" and "truck hitting top of tunnel" and "truck hitting underpass" things happen. (Because I always thought, what the heck, these truck drivers think the signs that give the clearance height are lying????)

Friend says this happens when they resurface the road. They leave the old clearance-height signs up, but now the ROAD is two inches higher. So now the truck that could have made it, can't make it anymore.

That is interesting, though it's hard to imagine intentionally cutting it that close (have you ever seen one of the "oops" trucks? What a mess!!!).

Here's one for you... Did you know why there are no trucks allowed on the "Parkways" on Long Island? Because Robert Moses was so elitist, when he planned the parkways, he included lots of low hanging overpasses so the "masses" from the city couldn't take buses out this way (the parkways predated the Long Island Expressway).

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Yeah, I knew that about the parkways! Isn't that incredible? Because he didn't want poor people to have access to mass transit! Sooooo delightful. The great urban planner!

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Yeah, I knew that about the parkways! Isn't that incredible? Because he didn't want poor people to have access to mass transit! Sooooo delightful. The great urban planner!

I thought it was that he didn't want people who relied on mass transit to have access to the "Gold Coast," etc... Either way, it's despicable. I heard his biographer speak a couple of years ago, I was horrified, but it made me want to read the book (though I never got 'round to it).

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Yes, I think you're right--he didn't want the people from the inner city to leave the inner city. Same thing in Westchester, that's why the Saw Mill is a parkway, the Sprain Brook is a parkway, the Hutchinson is a parkway....

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Yes, I think you're right--he didn't want the people from the inner city to leave the inner city. Same thing in Westchester, that's why the Saw Mill is a parkway, the Sprain Brook is a parkway, the Hutchinson is a parkway....

Did he plan those, too? I knew I should've read the book. The talk I went to was about Long Island, so the guy didn't mention the Westchester parkways. Sure makes sense, though.

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Dunno if the Westchester stuff was specifically Robert Moses's thing or if that was just the generally accepted way to do it. What was the book? Not The Power Broker, right? That was published in 1974. Was it Robert Moses and the Modern City? Editors' names are Hillary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, published in 2007.