6/6/2023 0 Comments Biglybt stuck on stoppingReeves said Thursday that the chime design was just an example of the types of configurations that are possible. ![]() You may like: Graffiti Bridge street artist Monty Welt creates Pensacola-inspired masterpiecesĪn early conceptual design for the warning system is a mast arm with hanging chimes that will hit the roof or windshield of any vehicle that's too tall to pass beneath the train trestle. The physical warning system is a next step that is intended to physically jostle drivers who disregard the written warning signs. This step allows law enforcement to cite drivers who disobey the regulatory signage. The city and the Florida Department of Transportation have already installed advance signage warning drivers that there are truck and vertical height restrictions along 17th Avenue, between Cervantes Street and the Gen. "If you're coming off the Three Mile Bridge going north toward the Graffiti Bridge and you have a boat on your trailer to go to use it at the boat launch, where are you going to put the (warning system) where you're not striking boats? So, it's not just in the material itself, it's in the design and making sure that it's functional." He also said there are design concerns around where exactly the warning system should be placed. "It's got to be able to take strikes from a truck." "As much as we'd like to say, we can go to Home Depot and buy some metal and hang it up there on a weekend project, there's a lot of restrictions to what we can put up," Reeves said during a press conference Tuesday morning. Reeves admitted came with some sticker shock. The cost of the project is estimated at about $141,000, a cost that Mayor D.C. The LOST funding would be used "for the design and construction of two overhead low clearance warning systems on 17th Avenue, one on either side of the railroad trestle bridge (southbound and northbound)," according to supporting documents. Previously: Pensacola may buy overhangs to physically warn trucks about Graffiti Bridgeįrom the archives: Pensacola's Graffiti Bridge: Why does it keep getting hit?
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