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If you don't like bridges, try ferries instead. I've been on at lest two that sank later. One was the one in Lake Nasser, Egypt, that sank in 1983, with 367 officially recorded as dead, mostly eaten by crocodiles. I was on it 7 years earlier. Also, I sailed many times on the MV William Carson, the Newfoundland ferry that hit an iceberg two years after my last trip on it, but everyone was rescued.
What a brave girl, Atlantis. Of course you had no choice. I was the passenger going over the Thousand Islands bridge but I still had a panic attack. I trembled and cried. We took the Peace Bridge back into the US too. Only other panic attack I've had was driving up Mt. Washington.
Wow that's interesting that you did Thousand Islands to Canada and Peace Bridge back to the US like I did. When I was a passenger I don't think I realized that it was such a narrow arc, and the vertical suspender towers on the bridge made it look even more intimidating.
When I drove and I got maybe 1/4 of the way up that's when I stopped for a minute or two, and I sat there going "I can't drive over this bridge I can't drive over this bridge I can't drive over this bridge". When I got to Montreal one of the first things I did was go to the CAA office and ask how to get back home on a route that would take me over the Peace Bridge.
That one is scary when you're driving in a windy rainstorm, that's for sure. Especially because the shoulders are non-existent and visibility is awful during rainstorms. However, that's not the scariest bridge in New Orleans. I think the Huey P. Long bridge is terrifying because of the trains coming across and how much it shakes and rattles.
Oh I absolutely agree!! I completely forgot about the Huey P. Long.
I recall thinking a fender being in jeporady driving across several old iron bridges still in existence when I first started driving. The grating was like the inside lanes of the Mac in MI. None bother me now,but DW doesn't drive across the mighty Mac.
There two bridges which REALLY bother me the most:
The Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey ( Takes Rts 1 & 9 over the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers) - It's a poorly maintained bridge which ding-dongs trying to get the Hudson Tunnel fly across daily.
When I was 4-5 years old (early 50s) we were stationed in NY. In order to get to the hospital at West Point we had to drive over the Bear Mountain Bridge. It crosses the Hudson River and I thought it was really high. It scared me to death. Just the thought of it still scares me. I know it was my age at the time. No other bridge has ever scared me.
Years ago, draw bridges and even some fixed bridges just had a steel grid for a roadway, and you could peer out the side windows, and see the river underneath the road. A lot of older bridges are probably still that way. Like this:
You can hear your tires hum when you drive on the grid floor, and you have a subconscious urge to check your pockets to make sure you didn't drop any change through the bridge.
My dad said a lot of bridges in the teens and twenties were just two planks held in place by the bridge structure, and you had to drive across with your tires on the planks.
Pfft, that's nothing. Try the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway:
Almost 24 miles over water.
You beat me on that one. I drove on that Causeway a few times both day and night and it's NO joke!
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