Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass
Low bridge in North Carolina, US
Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass
The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass (also known as the 11-foot-8 Bridge or the Can Opener Bridge) is a railroad bridge in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Built in 1940, the bridge carries passenger and freight trains over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and functions as the northbound access to the nearby Durham Amtrak station. The bridge was designed in the 1920s, with a clearance for vehicles of 11 feet 8 inches (3.56 m), the standard height when it opened. Since 1973, the standard clearance for bridges was increased to a minimum height of 14 feet (4.27 m), although bridges constructed before this date were not required to be rebuilt to meet the increased clearance requirement. Despite numerous warning signs about the low clearance, a large number of trucks, buses, and RVs have collided with the overpass at high speed, tearing off roof fixtures, and at times shearing off the trucks' roofs, earning the bridge the nicknames the "Can Opener" and the "Gregson Street...
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