# Big infrastructure projects (spin off from Sicilian bridge thread)

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**Created:** [November 1, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-infrastructure-projects-spin-off-from-sicilian-bridge-thread/1009616 "2024-11-01T21:46:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-infrastructure-projects-spin-off-from-sicilian-bridge-thread/1009616/7 "2024-11-01T23:48:08Z")

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> [@Bridge proposed between Italy and Sicily](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridge-proposed-between-italy-and-sicily/1009538/14):
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> Then you better stay off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel - it’s only 17 miles long.

Do you also recommend he stay away from airplanes? Especially their cockpits? 😀

Fears are funny. I am afraid of heights, but when I drove over the Confederation Bridge between PEI and New Brunswick I was disappointed that they had block the sight of the ocean below.

And I have driven dozens of times over the bridge to Annapolis at the upper end of Chesapeake Bay without noticing anything much. So I was astonished to discover that there are people who make a living by driving other people’s cars over it because they can’t bring themselves to do it themself.

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