(05-09-2017, 01:40 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: If a truck that would collapse the bridge needs to be prevented from using it as a shortcut, I can understand the motivation.
Maybe we should close every small bridge like this in the township? We just can't take this chance!
The problem with that thinking is the tens/hundreds of thousands (edit: probably millions) of extra km that people have to drive to avoid the tiny chance we get a moronic truck driver that has the tiny chance of damaging the bridge.
It looks like you could set up two different detours in this case. One direction of traffic takes the residential road into the golf course area of Conestoga. The other direction of traffic takes the peel street bridge. And if they're really worried about the bridge, take the money they saved from needing spotters, closing the bridge, and extra road usage to put spotters (or a camera!) on the bridge with a big sign saying trucks over X weight can't take the bridge.