Tree dangers

[cardinal]

Quite topical given the current weather trend of stormy weather

This is a shocking picture

x.com/Kent_999s/status/1719103276417728750?s=20

[greenboy]

Oct 31, 2023 4:49:41 GMT cardinal said:

Quite topical given the current weather trend of stormy weather

This is a shocking picture

x.com/Kent_999s/status/1719103276417728750?s=20

The bus involved is 6139, but very fortunate that nobody was injured.

[matthieu1221]

Over in HK, the most powerful storm we had in the past decade in 2018 caused dozens of buses to be taken out of service was service resumed after the typhoon passed for that same reason. Usually there's a route test on the typical 'problem' routes after a storm but due to the widespread damage it wasn't done with particularly dangerous consequences. More buses got tree guards installed but not entirely sure it would've changed much in these cases... Thankfully I don't recall anyone being seriously injured but there was a shortage of front upper deck replacement windows for a while after the storm. Unrelated to trees, we've also had a few unfortunate incidents over the years of shoddy construction site management leading to concrete chunks at times falling on bus roofs. Long story short, the roof of a bus isn't extremely strong.