Highways to Heaven

[SignGeek101]

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Garden City Skyway in Niagara-On-The-Lake

[Jardine]

US20 in NW Illinois follows a narrow ridge for a ways between Galena and Freeport.  Interesting to drive it at night, and see the yard lights for farms down so low, on BOTH sides of the road.

[Takumi]

The VA 337 Jordan Bridge

[SteveG1988]

Astoria-Megler Bridge



Commodore Barry Bridge

[theline]

The Jamestown Bridge  (old and new) in RI

Is this the bridge that connects Jamestown to the mainland? It can't be the one that connects to Newport, because that bridge didn't exist when I visited RI in the mid-60s. We had to take a ferry from Jamestown to Newport then.

[1995hoo]

Astoria-Megler Bridge



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I had to look up where this one is. Anyone else struck by its overall resemblance (despite being narrower) to the Tappan Zee Bridge?

[jakeroot]

Astoria-Megler Bridge

http://bridgehunter.com/photos/17/97/179766-L.jpg

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I had to look up where this one is. Anyone else struck by its overall resemblance (despite being narrower) to the Tappan Zee Bridge?

Well, in a roundabout way, I'm more struck by the resemblance of the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Astoria-Megler Bridge (only because I'm more familiar with the latter than the former).

[SteveG1988]

How about bridges that due to the terrain are really high up, but don't feel that way until you look over the side.

[1995hoo]

Astoria-Megler Bridge

http://bridgehunter.com/photos/17/97/179766-L.jpg

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I had to look up where this one is. Anyone else struck by its overall resemblance (despite being narrower) to the Tappan Zee Bridge?

Well, in a roundabout way, I'm more struck by the resemblance of the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Astoria-Megler Bridge (only because I'm more familiar with the latter than the former).

Heh. Fair enough!

[spooky]

Is this the bridge that connects Jamestown to the mainland? It can't be the one that connects to Newport, because that bridge didn't exist when I visited RI in the mid-60s. We had to take a ferry from Jamestown to Newport then.

Indeed it is.

[SteveG1988]

[dfwmapper]

How about bridges that due to the terrain are really high up, but don't feel that way until you look over the side.

Basically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges_in_the_world. Anything that high doesn't have a climb to get to it. Not on the list, but throw in Navajo Bridge carrying US 89A over Marble Canyon in Arizona.

[SteveG1988]

The Tydings Memorial Bridge is way up there, but doesn't feel it thanks to it being a deck truss cantiliver.

[jwolfer]

The Chesapeake bay bridge feels really high.. Especially the 2 lane one with the metal grating.. Scary to drive on in wind and rain-

[Chris19001]

Beatty Cutoff Road in Death Valley National Park.  It visably gains a few thousand feet in about 10 miles.  CA190 has a similar effect on the western approach to Stovepipe Wells.  It makes a remarkable impression every time I've seen it.  (more so downhill though)

[ekt8750]

The Chesapeake bay bridge feels really high.. Especially the 2 lane one with the metal grating.. Scary to drive on in wind and rain-

The cantilever one before the tunnels is a tad high but the other than that it's pretty low.

Couple of candidates from my neck of the woods (none of these pics are mine):

Platt Bridge (PA 291):



Girard Point Bridge (I-95) especially on the upperdeck:



and finally the St. Georges Bridge in Delaware (US 13). Tha bridge gave me the creeps when I rode over it as a kid:

[roadman]

Astoria-Megler Bridge



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I had to look up where this one is. Anyone else struck by its overall resemblance (despite being narrower) to the Tappan Zee Bridge?

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the Astoria-Megler bridge the basis for the Madison Bridge in The Night The Bridge Fell Down, which was Irwin Allen's failed 1983 attempt to reclaim his title as Hollywood's "Master of Disaster?"

[jakeroot]

Astoria-Megler Bridge

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I had to look up where this one is. Anyone else struck by its overall resemblance (despite being narrower) to the Tappan Zee Bridge?

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the Astoria-Megler bridge the basis for the Madison Bridge in The Night The Bridge Fell Down, which was Irwin Allen's failed 1983 attempt to reclaim his title as Hollywood's "Master of Disaster?"

According to Wikipedia, yes. Though I have no way of verifying this since I don't have access to the movie.

[SteveG1988]

[jwolfer]

The Chesapeake bay bridge feels really high.. Especially the 2 lane one with the metal grating.. Scary to drive on in wind and rain-

The cantilever one before the tunnels is a tad high but the other than that it's pretty low.

Couple of candidates from my neck of the woods (none of these pics are mine):

Platt Bridge (PA 291):



Girard Point Bridge (I-95) especially on the upperdeck:



and finally the St. Georges Bridge in Delaware (US 13). Tha bridge gave me the creeps when I rode over it as a kid:

Not the CBBT. The William Preston Lane bridge us 50/301