I took the image above during one of my walks through the University of Louisville campus. A height restriction, meaning big trucks shouldn’t go in that direction.

But Interstate 65 is now closed for two months, and tons of highway vehicles are now driving through Old Louisville and the campus area. As expected, this is the result:

It’s like the trailer ran into a giant can opener (which it did). WDRB explains:

As Louisville drivers adjust to the closure of a five-mile stretch of Interstate 65 this summer, a familiar city traffic hazard is seeing an increase in crashes.

As of June 3, Louisville Metro Police confirmed at least eight crashes involving large trucks were reported at low-clearance overpasses along 3rd Street near Winkler Avenue and Eastern Parkway.

What really is annoying is just a couple of hundred yards before this scene, there used to be a lighted letterbox above the road between a stop sign next to the school library. That sign would warn of the height, or flash amber alerts on missing children.

But the light sign is gone, and it makes me wonder.

Did some city government hack have the sign taken down because they thought a large truck would knock it down?

There’s no reason for that sign to have disappeared. Who took it down?