A lone pigeon has induced site visitors chaos at peak hour on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.
The hen was flying at nice speeds over a truck and tripped the over peak sensors about 4.25pm on Wednesday, inflicting the southbound lane to close.
The truck, believed to have triggered the sensor, was stopped and reversed into the slip lane.
Site visitors grew to about two kilometres and motorists have been advised to make use of the Harbour Bridge till the tunnel was reopened about 20 minutes later.
The truck remained with police on the scene for about an hour till it was cleared to depart.
One eager operator, nevertheless, seen the three.9 metre truck couldn’t have triggered the over peak sensor of 4.4 metres.
Scouring by way of the CCTV footage, the operator found the pigeon had flown over the truck and triggered the detection.
“When the truck was measured as considerably underneath the peak restrict the incident grew to become a thriller and I need to thank the eagle-eyed tunnel operator who went again to the tape to find the true perpetrator,” Roads Minister John Graham mentioned.
“On this event the pigeon will obtain a warning slightly than the same old 12 demerit factors and 6 months off the roads – or above them on this case.”
