[livefox]

Exactly, Google for sure should have updated it but why had the city or even a concerned neighbor not put a fence or even a log or something there to block access to the bridge? A sign and a temporary barrier would have saved lives here.

Hell non-locals might have driven off the thing without GPS help, depending on how the bridge looked from road-level

[whylo]

Apparently there were barricades but they'd been removed due to vandalism. No mention of how long they'd been missing though. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/...

[saalweachter]

> But the barricades had been removed after being vandalized

... is this saying that, like, someone graffiti'd the concrete barriers in front of a collapsed bridge, and they took the barriers away leaving the collapsed bridge accessible?

I'm trying to figure out how to parse this in a way that makes sense to do.

[bewaretheirs]

Indeed. Slapping a coat of beige paint over the graffiti has got to be easier than moving them.

[saalweachter]

The older article, from 2022, says:

> Even barricades that had previously warned drivers not to cross the bridge had been washed away, WCNC reported.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/...

[avereveard]

The kind of person that plows trough bushes likely overlap with the kind that would remove the roadblock.