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I routinely travel a road that is just off the end of one of two north/south runways at Tampa International Airport. When they are landing to the south they come over the road, Hillsborough Ave., at about 100 feet, sometimes less. If memory serves me the required minimum altitude at that point where the approach cross this main east/west road is 18 feet! There is a traffic light just off the end of the runway and it's not uncommon for traffic to be at a complete standstill there when the aircraft are coming and going. I try not to stop there! I watch them pass over and think how unfortunate it would be to be sitting there in traffic when one lands short for fails to abort a takeoff with room left to stop. It's a 10,000 foot runway and the same condition exists, although not to the same extent, on the other end of the runway. I frequently think of the Air Florida flight that had problems with icing on takeoff and killed people on a bridge where it came down.