Most Beautiful Bridge

[texaskdog]

http://highestbridges.com/

[texaskdog]

Saw one in Cameron, Arizona a few weeks ago....

trying to figure out how to post a pic though

[agentsteel53]

Saw one in Cameron, Arizona a few weeks ago....

trying to figure out how to post a pic though

you must be referring to this bridge:

[texaskdog]

Good one, thanks for the assist!

[agentsteel53]

Good one, thanks for the assist!

from my first major road trip when I got an SLR; was playing around with long exposures well after dusk. 

[roadman65]

Bayonne Bridge is so beautiful!  Too bad it may come down in the next twenty years due to new larger container ships.  The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owns both the bridge and Port Newark.  They want the larger ships to dock at their port so they will be more than happy to replace the current 1931 structure!  We may see another cable stayed bridge in its place, plus NJDOT wants to extend the Hudson- Bergen Light Rail onto Staten Island as well that is another good reason to tear it down.

[Alps]

Bayonne Bridge is so beautiful!  Too bad it may come down in the next twenty years due to new larger container ships.

False. It's protected as a historic structure. The plan is to raise the bridge deck within the bridge, I believe. (I was a fan of raising the entire thing to preserve the profile, but it would have been much more difficult and costly.)

[Dr Frankenstein]

I'd say my favourite in QC would be the Laviolette (A-55 between Bécancour and Trois-Rivières.)

[roadman65]

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False. It's protected as a historic structure. The plan is to raise the bridge deck within the bridge, I believe. (I was a fan of raising the entire thing to preserve the profile, but it would have been much more difficult and costly.)

I hope you're right about this, though the Port Authority is strong and the fact that it is a bi-state bureaucracy does not stop them from getting what they want.

[AsphaltPlanet]

I'd say my favourite in QC would be the Laviolette (A-55 between Bécancour and Trois-Rivières.)

Moi aussi

[Dr Frankenstein]

Nice shot, AsphaltPlanet. It's a shame I didn't have my camera when I went (only to get A-55 clinched once and for all). The Grand-Mère Bridge (on QC-153) is a pretty one too!

[SteveG1988]

Heres one i took last year on a explore the area trip.



It is pretty impressive in every way, its height,width,length, plus it is the longest cantiliver in the united states.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Helmick Mill/Island Run Covered Bridge over Island Run (35-58-35) 74', Built 1867, Restored 2009
TR269 west of Eagleport. Morgan County, Ohio

[1995hoo]

Nice picture. Shame about the graffiti. People have no respect these days.

[KEVIN_224]

Does the Tappan Zee count for anything in this thread? Ha ha! Me and a friend crossed it on August 20th northbound/westbound, eventually heading to Lakewood, NJ.




These two pictures came from the Seabees Memorial Bridge, spanning the Connecticut River between Brattleboro, VT and Chesterfield, NH, along VT and NH Routes 9, respectively. I even got the shot of the NH DOT state line marker on the west shore of the Connecticut River. They were taken on June 8, 2010, with the first picture on the Brattleboro, VT side.

[Ian]

Does the Tappan Zee count for anything in this thread?

I think the bridge itself is nice looking, but I don't feel very safe driving over it.

[david1gray]

MacDonald Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia:





pics are my own

[yakra]

The A-55 bridge above reminds me of the Piscataque River Bridge, between ME & NH on I-95.

Elsewhere:

Left: the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, 1931
Right: the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, 2006

[KEVIN_224]

Ya mean this bridge?



As I was on a Concord Coach Lines bus, crossing into Kittery, ME on June 20, 2011. 

[1995hoo]

I remember the old Waldo-Hancock Bridge mentioned by "yakra." I recall it seeming very rickety and decrepit and I always ranked it as one of the scariest bridges I'd ever ridden over (not driven, as I was a passenger).

[yakra]

Kevin: That's the one!

[david1gray]

here is another one in Nova Scotia, the Seal Island Bridge, part of Trans Canada 105.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/archer10/6433676105/sizes/z/in/photostream/

[Duke87]

the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, 2006

Whoah, time lapse dissonance moment. I had no idea that bridge was finished. I remember driving over the old bridge while the new one was still under construction and nowhere near complete, thinking "wow, the new bridge will be nice when it's finished someday"... and the fact that that was seven and a half years ago (summer 2004) just sank in. Damn.

[surferdude]

New River Gorge in WV on US Route 19

1) On the back of a US Quater, See WV Quater
2) You can jump of the bridge on Bridge Day in October.  I participated what a rush. 
3) One of the highest spans on the east coast, if not the highest in the US. 

[KEK Inc.]

No Bixby Bridge? 



You can't exclude Hong Kong from this.