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The Massachusetts Bridge That Obliterates Trucks
The low-clearance East Street Bridge is a magnet for mayhem.
For a while now, CityLab has tracked the eardrum-smashing mayhem of the “Gregson Street Guillotine,” a low-clearance railroad trestle in Durham, North Carolina, that’s shaved the tops off of nearly 100 trucks.
Well, it turns out that lop-happy bridge has a relative living 600 miles up the coast. At 10-foot-6-inches, the East Street Bridge in Westwood, Massachusetts, is even lower than its Southern kin. And it’s just as vicious, racking up dozens of thunderous mishaps since (at least) the 1980s.