How stupid can you get?

[studiot]

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Concrete bollards have been installed to enforce a 45-week road closure after motorists "removed barriers" to avoid detours of up to 28 miles (45km).

Farthing Drove, in Lakenheath, Suffolk, was closed due to a damaged culvert that was undermining the road.

Suffolk County Council put up plastic barriers as work began on Tuesday, but has had to add immovable ones.

Resident Laura Murfitt said "When [the council] shut the road we then have to take a 28-mile detour."

The council said only the thickness of the surface was currently holding up the road but there was a three metre (10ft) wide cavity under the surface.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-51674057

 

Yes the council should have fixed this long ago, and yes 45 weeks is an inordinately long time to provide a simple fix (I remember managing a similar one in one week in Somerset).

But to drive over a 10 foot cavity ?

 

Perhaps our resident Bridge Engineer from Aberdeen has some thoughts, Peter ?

Edited February 28, 2020 by studiot