Truck turns sardine can on Memorial Drive

And they generally make provisions for trucks and buses.

The point of those road designs is to stop lawbreakers like you from speeding on city streets and killing people.

That was an impressive apology non-apology. You manage to pull back your statement on bikers by you are wrong to single bikers out, but replace that with bikers are a bunch of idealistic tools being manipulated by corporate interests.

That just even more insulting.

Again Mark, no biker advocates the banning of trucks and bikers are not idealistic tools being used as the face of corporate real estate lobbyist. Road designs you speak of are designed with calculation to traffic and usage. Also the low clearance you speak off, they have been there for decade (with one recent bridge was a reconstruction) - much belong to the time where design-thinking you probably see as ideal.

Ahhh...the hand begins to tip. Anything to do with "smart growth" is part of the "constellation" of "lobbies" to make big profits for real estate interests. Things that are "livable," "sustainable" or "complete" are code words for things that limit freedom and provide profit to urban planners and design firms.

How long until we start hearing the theories that Agenda 21 is a U.N. plot to usurp freedom in the U.S., force us into hideous bike spandex and put us under the greasy thumb of shadowy, bad-tipping euro-technocrats with square frame glasses and fancy shoes?!?!?

GOD SAVE THE UNION!!!!

(Actually there is a plot out there to prevent complete economic and environmental collapse at the hands of short-sighted ignorant profit reaping economic system that in the name of continually increasing consumption causes one part of the world to live at a resource-consumption level that cannot be sustained without inevitable environmental devastation and world political domination/human rights abuse. Bad-tipping urban planners aren't necessarily part of it, but they do have a good handle on how to set up city infrastructure a bit more efficiently.)

You have explained for me!

Here's a hint: transportation and human habitations are about people.

Not cars, not trucks, people. You are not your car.

Seriously. Hopeless.

A high-roof Sprinter van will easily fit a load of queen-size mattresses and boxsprings. A king-size mattress could go in diagonally or curved a bit as they tend to do, and the split boxspring could go next to it:

http://www.freightlinersprinterusa.com/sprinter/ca...

You've seen beds get delivered, right? A huge truck shows up, usually late, saying they had one hell of a time finding a way into your neighborhood that didn't involve overpasses and narrow streets and "no trucks" signs. The truck parks wherever it can, blocking the street and annoying the whole neighborhood. Cops don't usually ticket them for violating parking laws, saying "they gotta make their delivery somehow." The truck is empty except for the one bed.

But this is more efficient than a van, right?

Except when they are driven onto a road with low clearances, I suppose. Simple answer: don't do that.

It's the five-axle heavy trucks that cause the biggest problem with damage to the road. I believe the figure is approximately 3000 times as much damage to the road as a private car. The city, and the taxpayers, are the ones paying to repair that.

You don't need a five-axle truck to do mattress delivery, I assure you. I see lots of furniture delivery trucks around here, and they're invariably much smaller. Much like UPS and Fedex trucks. I bet those two companies know a thing or two about doing city deliveries.