[central_va]

IMO the Rt. 301 bridge over the Potomac is scarier than the BB. Both are bad.

[cyclotic]

After driving a bus across the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan a few dozen times, there’s no bridge that compares.

https://www.mackinacbridge.org/history/facts-figures/

When it’s windy, you have to steer the bus strongly into the wind but then have to straighten out when you get to the suspension piers, otherwise you’ll hit the piers. Oh, and the rail is lower than the wheel hubs. Oh, and you’re responsible for yourself and the 49 lives sitting behind you.

[Albion Wilde]

IMO the Rt. 301 bridge over the Potomac is scarier than the BB. Both are bad.

And how about Rt 13 from Cape Charles, off the tip of the Eastern Shore towards Norfolk? It is to pee oneself.

I had never thought about having a flat tire on one of those bridges before. Thanks for the warning, cyclotic.

What I hate about those long water crossings is how low the bridges seem to be, over the water. Probably not much lower than a regular suspension bridge like the ones over the Delaware River around Philly, or that Woodrow Wilson drawbridge out of DC, because boats have to pass under them. But because they are too long to be humped in the middle, they just seem lower. And for a really long time!

[Albion Wilde]

Wonder if we are talking about the same bridge? "The Chesapeake Bay Bridge" (1952) is the one connecting Annapolis to the Eastern Shore across Rt. 50.

I've been freaking out at the memory of the "Chesapeake Bay Bridge – Tunnel" (1964), Rt 13 towards Norfolk, which many people also call "the Bay Bridge."

The Rt 301 Bridge that central_va mentioned is the Harry Nice Bridge (1940) towards Richmond, right?