Posted on 12/17/2004 7:47:42 AM PST by SmithL
You should experience riding a motorcycle across something like that--it's like flying!
What do they charge nowadays? Last time I crossed it I think it was around 20 bucks.
That there bridge looks good enough to pee off of ....gotta go Walmarts open....
If the French build bridges like their cars and aircraft carriers, a major disaster looms.
It's $10.00 each way.
I didn't mind a bit. Maintenance on that thing must be a major league, armour plate B!+@#. But it was always in good shape when I used it.
Don't go to Louisiana. They have a 26 mile bridge.
The idea makes me light-headed...I have a serious phobia when it comes to bridges. I cross 'em. I don't try to avoid 'em. But I don't like 'em and I have life preservers for my jedis under their seats in my van. I don't care what anybody says...I feel better with those life preservers there.
I'm not real fond of highway ramps that come up off the ground either.
hehehe... Hey there 2J! But our Narrows bridge hasn't fallen down again for... years! Really! :-)
BBBbbwahahahahahahaha!
Wellllll.... instead of bitching he could *gasp* act like a REPORTER and find out WHY it costs $5B to build a slab when the French have built and impressive (can't deny it) bridge for 10 percent of the cost.
How many retirements will be funded by line items in the new bay area bridge? How much money goes to funding environmental studies, union special interests, and even some unrelated school programs? What are the odds that some of that 5B will find it's way into the local AIDs clinics?
Or he could talk to some engineers and calculate the cost of building the Millau in California! Quarter Trillion? Aw, heck! Us red state Wal-Mart simpletons should fork it over so the bay area snobs can drive on art while they make a morning Espresso run.
Tonight when I'm driving home on a grey slab on stilts I'll think to myself "gee, I'm really upset because Mark Morford in unhappy with the appearance of a new bridge." As I watch Nascar this weekend it won't dawn on me how shallow he seems to not notice he has the Golden Gate Bridge in his city. I might not be able to feed my kids as depression sets in that Mike Morford doesn't like his new bridge. Damn, voter remorse might be setting in by this time. I bet that swell John Kerry (who served in Viet Nam, did you know that?) would have made sure that MIKE MORFORD liked his bridge!
By next week I'll probably need conselling because Mike Morford doesn't like his bridge. All of those well dressed Californians with their freshly detailed Smart Cars and BMWs don't have a bridge that meets MIKE MORFORD's asthetic sensibilities.
Mike Morford! Mike Morford! Mike Morford! It's all about you, Morford. It's your f'king world and we're just living in it.
This one gets you for the height. Periodically toll workers will have to drive folks across who just can't handle it.
That's a true fact ... well worth paying the toll.
Ugnh. No boat?
You have to bring your own.
Before they built the Bay Bridge/Tunnel there was a ferry across.
Ha! Is that what he was trying to post?
I'm pretty proud of the fact that I cross bridges, even though I'm afraid of them. However, that bridge you posted might be the line I can not cross.
I'm not sure which one thrills me more ... but I've actually run across the Bay Bridge. That was a hoot.
I should SUE!
j/k
It's a better lawsuit than some...
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