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re: Scariest bridge you have driven on.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 8:51 am to cyogi
Posted on 8/12/22 at 8:51 am to cyogi
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For a while I was driving from the NO area to Houston for several months. One time when driving back from Houston, I took the Huey P in Baton Rouge... I literally was fighting off an anxiety attack going over that bridge. I will never ever drive over that thing the rest of my life.
The Jefferson one pre-renovation was way worse than the BR one
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Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:01 am to XenScott
Bridge by the old ball park in Rexmer crossing bayou des glaise.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:14 am to Tomatocantender
quote:yes. I was in 8th grade and remember watching it.
Wasn't this the infamous Giants vs A's incident that was essentially aired live just before 1st pitch?
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:15 am to TheDeathValley
quote:buddy from college ended up in bridge design/building. he told me the Huey P was the butt of many jokes, "make sure you measure twice, don't wanna pull a Huey P"
The old Huey P. That little curve at the top came at you fast.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:23 am to Zappas Stache
I'd like to meet the dude that thought this was a good idea.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:33 am to Sun God
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The Jefferson one pre-renovation was way worse than the BR one
You're talking about the 2013 renovation? I drove the one in Jefferson before that. Yes, it was bad. I don't know why the one in BR is worse for me, but it is. I think the one in BR just seems lighter and thinner.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:42 am to XenScott
Matthews Bridge in Jax. It's steep and all, but the scary part was at the top road surface changed from concrete to metal grate; so, not only could you look down and see just how high you are but it was also slippery during a storm
(It's now all concrete after the last incident several years ago ..I think a lady lost control and slid into the wall and over. But they had a couple incidents like that)
(It's now all concrete after the last incident several years ago ..I think a lady lost control and slid into the wall and over. But they had a couple incidents like that)
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:48 am to SuperOcean
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Matthews Bridge in Jax.
This post was edited on 8/12/22 at 9:51 am
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:54 am to tes fou
Went over the old Cooper River bridge with wife about to give birth. Not my idea of a good time.
Rio Grande Gorge bridge in Taos was pretty sketchy
Rio Grande Gorge bridge in Taos was pretty sketchy
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:55 am to Sun God
while completely different, i've ridden my bike over the natchez trace bridge a billion times and a few times when i was training on a TT bike with a disk the winds blowing pushed me around and it was absolutely terrifying. the barriers on either side are like thigh-high
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:56 am to XenScott
Rickety arse old wooden bridges in the middle of fricking nowhere when a family member would ride horses and board at these hole in the wall fricking places.
As bad as some major bridges are, I don’t feel like I’m going into the river when I am going across them like I was when crossing creeks on those.
As bad as some major bridges are, I don’t feel like I’m going into the river when I am going across them like I was when crossing creeks on those.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 10:03 am to teke184
when i was at LSU in the 1980s, a friend and i walked across the MS river bridge on the catwalk underneath. pretty terrifying thing to do at midnight. 
we also used to get under the bridge between alexandria and pineville and you could actually stick your hand up through the compression joints to the road above so we would do that when cars were coming
good times. we would run like hell if someone stopped but it was impossible for anyone driving across the bridge to comprehend what was going on and find the access and catch us before we were gone.
to this day i've wondered if these people had recurring nightmares of their headlights hitting a hand rising out of the pavement in the middle of a bridge.
we also used to get under the bridge between alexandria and pineville and you could actually stick your hand up through the compression joints to the road above so we would do that when cars were coming
good times. we would run like hell if someone stopped but it was impossible for anyone driving across the bridge to comprehend what was going on and find the access and catch us before we were gone.
to this day i've wondered if these people had recurring nightmares of their headlights hitting a hand rising out of the pavement in the middle of a bridge.
This post was edited on 8/12/22 at 10:08 am
Posted on 8/12/22 at 10:17 am to XenScott
The old Huey P Long bridge with the kink in the middle was a bitch. Especially if you drove anything bigger than a Fiat.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 10:24 am to Auburn80
Wife and I were driving into San Diego one night coming in on I-10. I had never been to SD. It was around 10PM when I saw a random elevation sign that said something like 200 feet. I thought that was a little odd. Next thing I know, we are 5000 feet up, the temp has dropped about 25 degrees, and we are going through the Tejon Pass. I’m sure during the day it would have been beautiful, but this particular night also featured some huge wind gusts.
I white-knuckled it the whole way through and didn’t say a word for about 45 minutes
I white-knuckled it the whole way through and didn’t say a word for about 45 minutes
Posted on 8/12/22 at 10:31 am to XenScott
Huey P pre renovation never scared me because it was mostly straight. Except for that 'offset' near the center.
When I was in grade school, my family visited Charleston SC, and we went north over a bridge that was high enough for big naval ships to pass underneath. My Father was driving, near the top the bridge started a gentle turn to the north east and I vividly remember looking back and seeing the bridge parts before we entered the turn. Big bridge, big turn, terrified me. I can't think of another bridge anywhere with a 45 degree turn near the top. Nor do I want to.
When I was in grade school, my family visited Charleston SC, and we went north over a bridge that was high enough for big naval ships to pass underneath. My Father was driving, near the top the bridge started a gentle turn to the north east and I vividly remember looking back and seeing the bridge parts before we entered the turn. Big bridge, big turn, terrified me. I can't think of another bridge anywhere with a 45 degree turn near the top. Nor do I want to.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 10:58 am to Gnar Cat21
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Seven mile bridge during a hurricane
Maybe during the evacuation of a CAT 3-5 but the Keys are barricaded to only LE, emergency, and electrical repair personnel during the actual event.
To what do I base my opinion? I'm a lifelong Conch. I personally drove (age 18) the old bridge in a milk truck during the final month of operational use. Used to ride over the old by bridge twice a week coming and going to the mainland for HS ballgames.
This post was edited on 8/12/22 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/12/22 at 11:04 am to northshorebamaman
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Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia freaked me out a little.
Been on it a few times. Is an awesome sight.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 11:04 am to tes fou
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The old Cooper river bridges in Charleston, SC. One was 20’ wide 2 lanes with no median or shoulders/curbs and the other had 3 slightly less skinny lanes one opposing traffic with no divider.
When I lived there, there were people who refused to drive over it, they'd go from Mt P to Daniel Island to take 526 to the downtown peninsula instead of driving over that bridge. That old cooper river bridge was terrifying. Felt like you were 1000 feet over the harbor and like you said, tiny/skinny/no divider. And ancient.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 11:11 am to XenScott
Bridge over Lake Maracaibo. Chunks would routinely fall off. Zero maintenance. Designed by the same person who designed the bridge that collapsed in Genoa.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 11:16 am to XenScott
Standstill traffic on old Huey P. with a train crossing it.
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