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Check this out. It's the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge in Mexico. It's brand new and has been certified by Guiness as the highest bridge in the world, standing more than 1300 feet above the river.
I hope it has high guard rails for those who get half way across and collapse in a panic!
That's great! We've been on the Hoover Bypass which is listed as the second highest in the US, it is cool because you can park and take a short trail up to go out on its pedestrian walkway.
Given the high tolls on Mexican autopistas and the cost of this road, one can only guess what the toll will be to drive the new highway. I predict it will be more than fjfty US dollars to drive Durango to Mazatlan. That means for a big truck, it would be maybe $500, and I expect most of them will continue to use the old libre road, as they do everywhere else in Mexico, except where they can illegally cut cross-country onto the toll road between pay stations. The cuota roads are for the rich in their automobiles. I never thought the old Espina del Diablo road was so bad, there are a few trucks on it, and it's not that hard to get around them. The grades are never bad, and there are no places where it is narrow enough to be scary.
By the way, do any of you fraidy-cats really think that bridge is gonna collapse just as you are driving across it, or that you'll fall off the edge?
Given the high tolls on Mexican autopistas and the cost of this road, one can only guess what the toll will be to drive the new highway. I predict it will be more than fjfty US dollars to drive Durango to Mazatlan. That means for a big truck, it would be maybe $500, and I expect most of them will continue to use the old libre road, as they do everywhere else in Mexico, except where they can illegally cut cross-country onto the toll road between pay stations. The cuota roads are for the rich in their automobiles. I never thought the old Espina del Diablo road was so bad, there are a few trucks on it, and it's not that hard to get around them. The grades are never bad, and there are no places where it is narrow enough to be scary.
By the way, do any of you fraidy-cats really think that bridge is gonna collapse just as you are driving across it, or that you'll fall off the edge?
No, but it does happen sometimes. And, sometimes it's a brand new bridge, such as the one in Oklahoma across the South Canadian River at Calvin which collapsed without warning back in the 70's.
No, but it does happen sometimes. And, sometimes it's a brand new bridge, such as the one in Oklahoma across the South Canadian River at Calvin which collapsed without warning back in the 70's.
The pilings were knocked out from under that bridge by a barge, a risk that will make the high Mexican bridge a great deal safer than any on US barge-navigable waterways. Barge traffic is light down in the depth of that gorge in the Sierra Madre.
My favorite anecdote from the Oklahoma bridge incident, by the way, was the imposter who showed up and said he was a captain in the US army special forces, and took control of the rescue effort, and got free food, lodging and transport, and then disappeared and was arrested a week later in Canada.
The pilings were knocked out from under that bridge by a barge, a risk that will make the high Mexican bridge a great deal safer than any on US barge-navigable waterways. Barge traffic is light down in the depth of that gorge in the Sierra Madre.
My favorite anecdote from the Oklahoma bridge incident, by the way, was the imposter who showed up and said he was a captain in the US army special forces, and took control of the rescue effort, and got free food, lodging and transport, and then disappeared and was arrested a week later in Canada.
That was the I-40 bridge over the Arkansas River east of Muskogee. The one at Calvin was much earlier and over a non-navigable river. Not long after it went down, another collapsed without warning over Keystone Lake.
That imposter showed up in uniform and began issuing orders under a claim of martial law. According to some people I know who were there, he actually did a pretty good job of organizing the scene.
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Some of those bridges give me vertigo if I look at them to long! 
