Bridges
 

With the recent collapse of the I35 Bridge in my area I've been thinking about bridges a good deal lately. I think for many, bridges conjure up thoughts of romance, serenity and beauty. In all your travels, what is the most memorable bridge you've ever crossed?

Sunshine Skyway-old and new

Not one that anybody would ever think of as being memorable. It's a little one on a gravel road that spans the Maquoketa River out in the country here. We call it Supple's Bridge. We used to go out there in high school and jump off of it into the river. Great memories each time I cross it.

Probably several. The Golden Gate in San Francisco is probably the most recognized bridge I've been on but also the bridge in San Diego leading to Coronado Island towering over 200 feet above the harbor. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel connecting Virginia with Maryland and Delaware; the Mackinaw bridge between lower and upper Michigan and the bridge connecting Port Huron, Michigan with Sarnia, Ontario. All of these bridges are very impressive and marvels of construction. On a smaller scale, even the Cedar Street Bridge in Peoria crossing the Illinois River is quite impressive climbing to a height of maybe 100 feet above the river.

Cleveland is a city of many bridges and not a thought that can be far from our minds. As such, there isn't a lot of romance connected to them in my mind, but there is a recollection of stark fucking terror :yikes: when as a very young and dumb and full of cum kid, a couple of us took a dare and did some climbing on one of these.

The bridge that first comes to mind as an 'attraction' for me is Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. It is 1,200 ft. above the river and made ours look scrawny.

The Portsmouth Bridge between ME & NH means I'm home and the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset is spectacular!

Ain't nobody corssing this one no more:

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831...gm_KhD 7vtiBIF

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Man arrested for stealing bridge Fri Aug 31, 10:47 AM ET

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have detained a 45-year-old municipal worker for stealing a bridge.

The 5-meter span metal bridge disappeared from a river crossing in the Ryazan region, east of Moscow. Police said they tracked it down to the man, who had used his work truck to remove it and then chopped it up and sold it for scrap.

In a statement, Ryazan region police called it "the bulkiest theft of the year."

^^^ :rofl:

I understand that is not an uncommon problem for railroad trestles in some of the outback of Oz. :eek:

Does driving across Hoover Dam count? :shrug:

I'm don't do very well with heights and some bridges are a bit intimidating for me, I thought driving across that dam was going to kill me.

It had a lot more to do with the fact that we were on our honeymoon, but the Europabrücke was a pretty spectacular bridge we crossed heading from Austria into Italy.

But I do love the GWB and the Brooklyn Bridge too, because I love driving into the city.

Another cool bridge that makes Mrs. WI nervous is the Jamestown Bridge leading over to Newport, RI. She HATES that one! The old Jamestown Bridge was even scarier but it was brought down last year, nearly a decade after it's use was discontinued.

The Carquinas Bridge - which I crossed when I "moved" cross country into the Bay Area.

The bridges down to Key West are long and memorable -- and I think some of the longest in the world

I also liked the "bridges" around the Hoover Dam. :)

The 7 mile bridge in the Fla. Keys!

The Portsmouth Bridge to me means I'm going to see a neighbor. :D

It's funny, though. Not that it's beautiful or breath-taking, but the Kennedy bridge, crossing the Ohio between Kentucky and Indiana, gives me the same feeling of "home."

How did you keep Lix&Lix from blowing it up? :confused:

Three bridges, all on Stoney Creek in N Cal.
1st. near the end of the creek into the Sacramento River. At about 45 mph both ends of the bridge provided an incredible tummy tickler for us kids in the back seat of the car. We went over that bridge one million four hundred ninety-seven times! or every other weekend in both directions for 12 or 15 years.

2nd. The Stoney Creek Bridge that was eventually inundated by the waters of The Black Butte Reservoir when Black Butte Dam was constructed. It was an older, one lane creosote soaked timbers bridge that had a sign posted at each end reading
LOAD LIMIT
40 tons
You break it,
YOU BUY IT

3rd. The Stoney Creek Bridge one mile east of the home we lived in for three years when I was just starting school. A steel structure that served well on Highway 32 for many decades that finally was deemed too narrow and was replaced by a low profile embankment and concrete bridge.
A few years before the construction began I had a premonition about the bridge and its replacement. I awakened puzzled and concerned for a strange feeling that had overtaken and awakened me. About two years later I was driving along that stretch of highway and saw a change in the horizon in the vicinity of the home my family lived in. The road had been improved significantly and the bridges that I saw in my premonition appeared exactly as I had seen them. I immediately fell into tears and wept profusely for some unknown emotion.
Those are my bridges of Glenn County.