Probably put there by the hospital administration.

Oh dear, another double decker that wanted to be a single decker

Where is the proper height restriction sign?

You mean that big red thing that says 12' 0"?

That big red thing is not a regulatory sign although I must admit I would have taken heed of it.

Bridge height traffic signs used in the UK. http://www.ukmotorists.com/lowbridge_signs.asp

That signage appears to be related to public roads and highways.
I could be mistaken, but this would appear to me to be part of the hospital grounds and parking lots. If so, I don't think those signage directives would necessarily apply.

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http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/09/17/porsche-plows-into-spectators-at-idaho-car-show-11-hurt.html

BOISE, Idaho – A Porsche plowed into a crowd of spectators at a Boise, Idaho, car show, injuring 11 in a horrifying scene that saw bystanders scrambling to tend to the injured, authorities and witnesses said.

Police say the driver of the gray Porsche accelerated while leaving the Cars and Coffee event, lost control and ran into the nearby crowd lining a sidewalk. Police say the driver is cooperating in their investigation.

Boise police spokeswoman Haley Williams said there were many with serious injuries, but no fatalities had been reported by late Saturday afternoon. Some of those injured were children, Williams said.

At the approach to the bridge there is a "proper" sign, and the bus would have passed it to get to the height restricted bridge:


Sorry for the fuzzy picture - the sign appears to show 3.6m headroom, or 11ft 10in headroom - so no excuse for the 14ft bus....
(There is another entrance just along the road without a height restriction)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Most publicly accessible parking and access areas use the standard signs, often reinforcing them with an "unofficial" sign at the site of the restriction.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

That signage appears to be related to public roads and highways.
I could be mistaken, but this would appear to me to be part of the hospital grounds and parking lots. If so, I don't think those signage directives would necessarily apply.

That could be the reason, I do not know what road regulations apply to publicly accessible private roads.

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Kevin

Oh dear, another double decker that wanted to be a single decker

I love this bit from the article.:

A spokesman for East Coast Buses said: ... "It is too early to know the full circumstances of what happened."

Yes... it's just as possible that a malicious walkway lowered itself and sneakily changed its clearance sign to cover it up just before the bus went under it as that your driver missed it. Uh huh. 😀

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Hmm, given the amount of regulation that is imposed on airlines this story is a bit of a concern:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41298931

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Oh dear, another double decker that wanted to be a single decker

I love this bit from the article.:

A spokesman for East Coast Buses said: ... "It is too early to know the full circumstances of what happened."

Yes... it's just as possible that a malicious walkway lowered itself and sneakily changed its clearance sign to cover it up just before the bus went under it as that your driver missed it. Uh huh. 😀

There could be a number of reasons, that's why I queried the signage.

The lack of proper signage could also cause problems with any claim, you know how slippery insurance co's can be when paying out, and I am thinking of those that were injured not the big red thing.

I regularly have to drive past several advance low bridge warning signs (13 foot) with a 16 foot high trailer, before taking another road towards my destination, I also occasionally have to give directions to other drivers who have to go the same place with similar vehicles.

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Kevin

Going to prove a very expensive Oops

I saw another article on that & thought WTF? The first count being the incredible stuffup where they didn't allow for holiday time (a few senior managers should get the boot for that, although I expect the blame will be passed down to those lower in the hierarchy and they'll get the boot & those higher up will get bonuses as usual for their stupendous performances).
And second, can't they find any other pilots?
Many years ago here in Australia when we had a pilots strike with the major airlines they used other, fully qualified, pilots to keep the aircraft flying.
Is there suddenly a huge shortage of qualified pilots?

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Grant
Darwin NT

Recently a friend got done for driving while using her phone. A member of the public had sent a couple of pictures of her "negotiating" a junction with the phone clamped to her ear. Plod responded by inviting her to pay a fixed penalty fine and gain some bonus points, or go to court. Everyone said "Cough up love", but she didn't and went to court. She ended up with a bigger fine, the same number of points and additional court costs etc. Quite a few morals to this, firstly don't use your phone while driving; plod does respond to reports like this from the public; third, if you are caught on your phone while driving don't argue it just costs you a lot more. Further, if you are shopping someone for driving whilst on the phone take at least two pictures (or a video) as that shows continued use rather than "just patting their hair down" which was the argument she tried.

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Bob Smith
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A lot of us had been warning her, but she wouldn't listen. On a few occasions when I could have done with a lift I decided to walk because of her perpetual "phone to ear habit". Even when in a face to face conversation every ten seconds was a glance at her phone, or respond to a text, or take a call. i did notice that, since her centre-stage-in-court she's more likely to participate in a conversation than treat a conversation as a rude interruption to her phone life to such an extent as her hubby and kids are commenting how much nicer it is to be able to talk with her now.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Charlie Alliston: Cyclist detained over pedestrian death.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41306738
He complained: "It's not my fault people either think they are invincible or have zero respect for cyclists."

Charlie Alliston: Cyclist detained over pedestrian death.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41306738
He complained: "It's not my fault people either think they are invincible or have zero respect for cyclists."

Idiot should have been treated even more severely. Riding with defective equipment, no front brakes. Moron.

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Expensive cock-up

A sign of deeper issues?

"Reports on Monday also suggested recruitment problems were affecting the airline and that it had lost pilots to rival Norwegian Air.
A Norwegian spokesperson said: "We can confirm that 140 pilots have joined us from Ryanair this year. Pilot recruitment is also underway for more pilots for our new Dublin base opening later this year." "

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-shropshire-41309904/biker-who-pulled-wheelies-on-the-m6-is-jailed

A motorcyclist who performed wheelies and took a selfie while driving on the M6 has been jailed for eight months.

This is unfortunately common among the "fixie" crowd as fixed-gear bikes for track racing don't have brakes (as there should be no obstacles to have to brake for, and if someone ahead hits the brakes suddenly it could cause quite a pile-up.) So some buy them like this or remove the brakes to be "cool" even though it is completely illegal just about everywhere for road use for the good reason that backpedaling is nowhere close to the stopping power of brakes.

And of course in Toronto we don't just have to deal with them... the non-fixies can be just as brazenly dangerous. Happily that mindset also causes them to post videos of it and end up charged.

(I maintain my brakes weekly and always wear a helmet unlike this clown... didn't stop my wife and I from colliding last week mashing my knee (happily no fractures though) and giving me some nice road rash... lol.)

Edit: Coincidental wheelie charges... nice.

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Charlie Alliston: Cyclist detained over pedestrian death.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41306738
He complained: "It's not my fault people either think they are invincible or have zero respect for cyclists."

The disturbing thing about it is that the idiot in question (and my others like him) don't consider what they're doing to be a problem.

It's sad enough that some people don't have the right attitude to be able to drive a powered vehicle, let alone those that don't have the right attitude to be allowed to even ride a bicycle.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Charlie Alliston: Cyclist detained over pedestrian death.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41306738
He complained: "It's not my fault people either think they are invincible or have zero respect for cyclists."

The disturbing thing about it is that the idiot in question (and my others like him) don't consider what they're doing to be a problem.

It's sad enough that some people don't have the right attitude to be able to drive a powered vehicle, let alone those that don't have the right attitude to be allowed to even ride a bicycle.

Pedestrians in California have the right of way, this I think is same across the US, some idiots cause they have a drivers license, think the road is only for motor vehicles with 4 or more wheels, it's not.

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