Yep, that's the one, that bridge that crosses the Chesapeake at Annapolis. Each one is really narrow (just 2 lanes?), and you're REALLY high up. You look down out your side window, and it just falls right off into the abyss at about your arm's length.
Freaked out the wife big time.
I also sent this idiot an email this morning (below)> Don't forget, this is the "cantelever" section of the bridge....the one that connects Oakland to Angel Island....the ugly one that had a section collapse in the 89 Loma Prieta quake. It can't be much more butt-ugly than it is already... My message:
"Do you really blame this bridge debacle on Arnold and "Bushco"? I, like MANY others, grew up in the Bay Area but simply could not afford to live there once out of college. What you all have done to our beautiful home is a disgrace and to blame it on Arnold (Sac) or "Bushco" (Wash DC) is absurd!
If you want to blame the state's fiscal irresponsibility and current deficit situation on anyone, why in God's name would you not pin it on the one man who is clearly to blame: YOUR pick for Gov, the incredibly incompetent Gray Davis. Arnold is simply trying to keep you folks in the Bay Area, for whom (by definition) money is NEVER an object, to keep this project from becoming the "Heaven's Gate" of bridge building.
$300 million may not sound like much for someone who lives in an area where a 2 bedroom fixer-upper goes for over $500K, but for the rest of us trying to exist in this state that wants nothing but extremely rich (who can afford to live here) and the extremely poor (to serve their meals or clean their pools) it is a BIG deal.
For the millions of former Bay Area residents who used to look back at our stomping grounds with fond reminiscence, YOU that live there now have turned it into the laughing stock of the rest of the country and are working on the world now. And, like the good Demonrats that you are, you try to blame all YOUR problems on someone else.
You and your article are the reason San Francisco is going into the toilet but quick. Thanks for nothing."
The older span has steel guardrails, that look awfully flimsy. The newer span has Jersey Barrier guardrails ... if you have a "problem" with bridges, that would be the better choice, if a choice is available.