17 Terrifying Bridges You Wouldn't Want To Cross

BrainJet ^ | 3-30-15

[kingattax]

A good number of people have a fear of crossing bridges, no matter how secure they are. If you don't consider yourself one of that crowd, then you might after seeing these terrifying bridges of the world!

[patriot08]

Wow wouldn't be caught on THAT bridge. Thanks for posting

PS Something for a laugh amid all the bad news: Subject:​Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 82-year-old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sir: I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the check and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honor it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my entire pension, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account $30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank. My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally answer your telephone calls and letters, --- when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person. My mortgage and loan repayments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank, by check, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an OFFENSE under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application Contact which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Notary Public, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof. In due course, at MY convenience, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modeled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows: IMMEDIATELY AFTER DIALING, PRESS THE STAR (*) BUTTON FOR ENGLISH #1. To make an appointment to see me. #2. To query a missing payment. #3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there. #4. To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping. #5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature. #6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home. #7. To leave a message on my computer, a password to access my computer is required. Password will be communicated to you at a later date to that Authorized Contact mentioned earlier. #8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 7 again #9. To make a general complaint or inquiry. The contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. #10. This is a second reminder to press* for English. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call. Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement. May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous New Year? Your Humble Client And remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.

[loungitude]

Mostly corny. A few scary. One I rode sneakers, mountian bike, and an F-150 over.

[max americana]

Being from Vancouver BC, I’ve been to Capilano Suspension bridge more than 10 times. There were times I was even drunk but those were the high school days.

[CrazyIvan]

I miss the metal grate floor bridges that used to cross the Mississippi River near where I live. When you crossed them on a motorcycle you could look straight down and it looked like there was nothing beneath you. It was like flying.

[wally_bert]

The whole bridge scene isn’t here but here is tough bridge to cross. Nate And Hayes is a very underrated movie.

https://youtu.be/6kTr-pv3JxA?t=8m43s

[Wiser now]

I would love to see the photos but I refuse to waste my time with those one picture per page slide shows that take forever to load the dozens of ads crammed into each page, the reason for the one photo per page format.

[latina4dubya]

ditto...

[latina4dubya]

the Middle East has the most “rustic” unsophisticated bridges... primitive...

[CommerceComet]

What is your name? What is your quest? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Bridge of Death

[2CAVTrooper]

Ha ha good one... Thanks for sharing

[Polynikes]

You can get that swinging pretty good if you have 2-3 young fellows running back and forth along the span. It sets up a nice rhythm that builds as you run. It scares the devil out of who ever is on the span. Don't ask how I know this, but so I have been told. :~)

[JimSEA]

The Hussaini Hanging Bridge, Pakistan and the Old Hanging Bridge, Afghanistan would give me pause and necessitate some liquid courage before attempting but the others seem okay. Not that I like heights.

[MD Expat in PA]

Most of these look like “walkways” rather than what I tend to think of as “bridges” or at least the kinds of bridges I’m likely to ever encounter in my lifetime, willingly at least. That being said, I do have a phobia about driving across certain bridges.

I think it is more a combination of my “claustrophobia” and perhaps my fear of roller coasters more than my fear of heights or in cases of going over bridges over water; not a fear of water per se because I’m not at all afraid of water. But then I admit that I don’t really like heights very much, but then again when I fly a couple of times a year, and FWIW I love flying; I have no problem with sitting on the window side seat and looking out the window and in fact one of my favorite parts of flying is during the approach, watching the scenery below. But then I’m closed in with someone in charge and in control who isn’t freaking out (well, at least hopefully in control and not freaking out) : ),

Having grown up in Maryland, I’ve driven across or have been a passenger in cars driving across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, many, many times. I am better as a passenger, but driving across it myself?

When I absolutely have to drive it (the Chesapeake Bay Bridge), when I can’t find a way around it, I try to get into the center lane if on the span that is 3 lanes wide – (and it’s not so good if on the 2 lane span or when the other span closed and there is two way traffic or even worse as happened to me once, being stuck still in traffic for over 30 minutes in the middle of the span as a tropical storm was rolling in and the high winds and driving rains were making road very noticeably sway back and forth and up and down with nowhere to go); I roll all the windows all the way down and crank the car stereo up as loud as it can go, with the loudest rock or heavy metal or catchiest pop music I can find, I pop several pieces of gum and mints in my mouth, I stare straight ahead with both hands firmly on the wheel and I drive as fast as I dare to get over the damned thing as quickly as possible, all the while fighting off the feeling of being just about to faint and fighting off hyperventilating and feeling my heart racing and by now up in my throat, by taking very deep and very slow steady breaths and singing to the top of my lungs to whatever song is on the radio, trying to ignore the fact that I’m sweating profusely and that even though I am sitting, that my knees are literally shaking. < 0 (

The thing I think freaks me out even more than the height is the lack of a shoulder, someplace to pull off on if something goes wrong. I have a similar discomfort driving long stretches of highway under repair and construction with no emergency lane and being pinned in on either side for miles on end by “jersey walls” and a very narrow lane.

The other thing I don’t like about the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (did I say this before?) is going west bound with only two lanes and then going east bound with that big curve then the open guard rails….you can’t seem to see the end of the bridge in front of you and then open guard rails!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw3Ub7dQYFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQGMpnGzgqQ

And I’m evidently not the only one, although I’ve never paid some service to drive me across:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz7_9Kp6pk

Of course stories like this don’t help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vlWg2tNRCc

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

I lived in Northern Ireland for 3 years, 78 - 81. I have been to and crossed the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge several times (and if you cross it one way, ya gotta do it again, or you are islandized). Not so bad. I have crossed other bridges that are not in those depicted here, and would not like crossing again. There are only a couple or so depicted here that I would NOT cross (Unless my life depended on it)!

[Ax]

My scariest bridge is the wooden railway bridge connecting Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Livingstone, Zambia. It spans the Mighty Zambesi River, home to groups of hungry crocs. Had to walk both ways, 513 feet long and 420 feet above the roiling river. I was terrified.

[patriot08]

You’re welcome, sweetie.

[Rockpile]

I drove an F150 over the Royal Gorge bridge. I made Mrs Rockpile and offspring cross on foot before I drove across. At the same visit we were crossing in the hanging cable car when a quick moving storm cell blew in with lightning and high winds. That was exhilarating.

[Skybird]

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is the scariest that I’ve ever crossed in traveling from metro Washington, DC to Atlantic City, NJ. I was in one of the two lane spans and on a slightly windy day and had to force myself to continue to look straight ahead as the edge is right next to your car door. It’s a long way down to the water below.

I found another way back to DC, I think, through a bypass near Philadelphia.

They actually have escorts to drive your car across if you are unable to.

[QT3.14]

Same here. Gave up after the first one.

[Semper Mark]

The Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur, Texas gives me the willies just looking at it, let alone crossing it.