Scariest Bridge Decks

[SteveG1988]

Hanover Street Bridge in Pemberton NJ, bridge is a 1932 pony truss that was widened in the 1950s. It is falling apart and has a open grate deck, the county has to send people out frequently to keep the bridge intact.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9702581,-74.6840661,3a,75y,203.7h,71.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sc240ZbWS0xRg5liFSgDHSA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[noelbotevera]

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9034841,-77.6941819,3a,75y,141.74h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM_ALDGi6Z1ZSCvLt1RaSZw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

That spot right there flooded about a year ago. I get scared when it rains because it's so close to the creek it might flood again. That bridge too has sometimes flooded.

[Jardine]

This came up in another thread:



I'm putting it here also for my (paranoid?) concern about asymmetrical loading on the various spans and how much of that the bridge could stand before the heaviest live loaded span winds up in the drink ??

Clearly, it's an old bridge, and apparently, it hasn't happened . . . yet.

[SteveG1988]

This came up in another thread:



I'm putting it here also for my (paranoid?) concern about asymmetrical loading on the various spans and how much of that the bridge could stand before the heaviest live loaded span winds up in the drink ??

Clearly, it's an old bridge, and apparently, it hasn't happened . . . yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wDc_dTSj4

[Jardine]

This might be the winner of the topic.   

[noelbotevera]

This might be the winner of the topic.   

cool rust bro

[1995hoo]

The Oldtown Low Water Toll Bridge across the Potomac River isn't the most confidence-inspiring bridge deck:




(I should note the picture is from July 2013 and the bridge probably has a different deck now after a flood swept the bridge away either later in 2013 or sometime in 2014.)

[CtrlAltDel]

The Oldtown Low Water Toll Bridge across the Potomac River isn't the most confidence-inspiring bridge deck:

You paid actual money to drive over that? You, sir, are a more devoted road geek than I.

[cl94]

The Oldtown Low Water Toll Bridge across the Potomac River isn't the most confidence-inspiring bridge deck:

You paid actual money to drive over that? You, sir, are a more devoted road geek than I.

Costs $1.50 to drive it. Can walk/bike it for free.

[1995hoo]

The Oldtown Low Water Toll Bridge across the Potomac River isn't the most confidence-inspiring bridge deck:

You paid actual money to drive over that? You, sir, are a more devoted road geek than I.

There's a stop sign behind where I took that picture and when I stopped, I had to wait while a big SUV went across in the other direction. If I'd had any qualms, seeing that SUV would have eliminated them.




Some of my other pictures can be found in a post I made a few years ago:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2087.msg236073#msg236073

[cappicard]

How about the Royal Gorge Bridge? While in great shape (especially after the 2009 wildfire), the height is undaunting!

[SteveG1988]

Right now the Bayonne Bridge is kind of scary, mostly due to the sharp curves you have to navigate due to the construction above.

[Pete from Boston]

A tenuously qualified entry from a shopping center parking lot in Cambridge, Massachusetts–a ~30x30 steel grid deck laid on several beams about, 70 feet? off the bottom of a chamber somehow involved in ventilating the subway station below:




Sorta kinda bridge-like in that it carries traffic over a deep chasm.  Scary enough that I know folks who will not walk over it even though it bears the full weight of trucks.  I put a death grip on my keys whenever walking over it.

[paulthemapguy]

Anyone ever drive over a covered bridge before?  There's a series of covered bridges you can take your car across, in and around Parke County, Indiana.  There's at least a dozen or so, one of them is here:  https://goo.gl/maps/rWdYShmKJ6s

[CtrlAltDel]

Anyone ever drive over a covered bridge before?  There's a series of covered bridges you can take your car across, in and around Parke County, Indiana.  There's at least a dozen or so, one of them is here:  https://goo.gl/maps/rWdYShmKJ6s

I've been over a few, most of which were in Vermont, but they didn't seem to be particularly scary to me, for whatever reason.

[peterj920]

Filling in potholes on a bridge.  Never a good thing.  Island Street over part of the Fox River in Kaukauna, WI.  There is a vertical lift bridge for a bridge across a shipping canal that passes through 5 locks, and a bridge over a canal that flows into a hydroelectric power plant in addition to this bridge.  The other 2 bridges have decks in better shape. 

[cl94]

Covered bridges aren't that bad if you drive over them slowly. A bunch of them in these parts. What gets me are steel decks (as in grates). The US 4 bridge over the Hudson in Northumberland, NY is a good example of this that has been posted in this thread. The pedestrian bridge over the Northway (I-87) just south of Exit 22 is another really good example.

[In_Correct]

The Willis Bridge crossing the Red River is a long and very narrow bridge that has the shoulders blocked off because of guardrail damage. Other parts have collapsed also such as cracks and potholes forming in the deck. Some potholes were replaced with concrete so sometimes it has minimal scarring but other areas are obvious because they are only filled with Tarmac.

[D-Dey65]

The Oldtown Low Water Toll Bridge across the Potomac River isn't the most confidence-inspiring bridge deck:

You paid actual money to drive over that? You, sir, are a more devoted road geek than I.

There's a stop sign behind where I took that picture and when I stopped, I had to wait while a big SUV went across in the other direction. If I'd had any qualms, seeing that SUV would have eliminated them.




Some of my other pictures can be found in a post I made a few years ago:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2087.msg236073#msg236073

Wait a second; that thing is still an active toll bridge? I could see that in the 19th Century, but not now.