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the cheesecake man wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:58 This has been mention on other threads but St Ives old bridge has a 3 tonne minimum weight.
Strange, The opposite direction just has no entry signs. Last time I was there, I saw at least two cars drive over it in five minutes so it obviously isn't enforced very well if at all.
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The cost structure of the Dublin Port Tunnel favours HGVs and busses - they do not pay a toll. Other mere mortals do pay, though it the Dublin authorities wanted to allow genuine traffic coming off the ferries to by-pass the city centre, the technology exists whereby the number plates of vehicles coming off the ferry could be read and those vehicles would have 30 minutes to access the tunnel.
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jervi wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 23:06 So taking it at face value. A "slow vehicle" as far as I am aware is only defined at level crossings. That being a vehicle which does not exceed 5mph.
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This maybe related to a crash at Hixon level crossing crash on January 6, 1968
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MotorwayGuy wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 13:10
the cheesecake man wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:58 This has been mention on other threads but St Ives old bridge has a 3 tonne minimum weight.
Strange, The opposite direction just has no entry signs. Last time I was there, I saw at least two cars drive over it in five minutes so it obviously isn't enforced very well if at all.
The restriction is effectively "Vehicles that can turn round must do so; others may use the bridge to escape". Cars can turn round and go back up Bridge St, but there's not space to turn a lorry - and reversing out into the junction would be unsafe. And lorries can't be banned as the shops need to get deliveries.
If observed, it means that the bridge is mostly traffic-free, apart from the odd lorry that's leaving the shops on Bridge St.
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Creswell has this unusual combination of maximum weight and minimum height. Vehicles that won't fit under the railway bridge on the A616 are allowed to ignore the weight limit on the B6042.
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the cheesecake man wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 13:11 Creswell has this unusual combination of maximum weight and minimum height. Vehicles that won't fit under the railway bridge on the A616 are allowed to ignore the weight limit on the B6042.
There's a similar restriction between Evanton and Dingwall. With the additional clause of "except under police escort for through traffic" - which is surely unnecessary, as I would have thought that a driver under police escort could ignore the restriction anyway.
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