# I'm a sucker for click-bait - but this is one scary Japanese bridge! more like an artificial hill! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 19, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527 "2016-02-19T05:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/41 "2016-02-25T14:02:19Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > [Relevant article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331679/Chesapeake-Bay-bridge-The-Maryland-bridge-terrifying-locals-pay-25-company-shuttle-car.html). I had to drive across the bridge (both ways) to attend a wedding in Ocean City, MD. It doesn’t look that scary - there are no steep grades or anything - but the superstructure is [pretty much built into the road surface so it’s super narrow in most places](http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bridgebay1.jpg). I was basically okay - I don’t mind heights, and my primary concern was not denting the rental car by colliding with some moron in an RV - but my wife was literally huddling in the footwell by the time we were halfway across. I’ve driven it numerous times and never had any issue, but then I’ve been behind the wheel. I think that helps - because you’re concentrating on the road and the other cars, and not on the view / height / water waiting for you to plummet to your death. My husband was the passenger the first time we drove the [Dames Point Bridge](https://www.google.com/search?q=dames+point+bridge&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj97Z2aiZPLAhVBVD4KHfN7AVQQ7AkIMw&biw=1666&bih=890) in Florida and got a bit twitchy. I think that was as much because the superstructure made it look so frapping high, as the view of the water. Interestingly, he didn’t quibble at the [Harry Nice Bridge](https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1666&bih=890&q=harry+nice+bridge&oq=harry+nice+bridge&gs_l=img.3..0j0i8i30l3j0i24l6.6635.9016.0.9184.18.17.0.1.1.0.151.1823.8j9.17.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.18.1822.HPK4IlpdAcE) the time we crossed it, nor the [Delaware Memorial Bridge](https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1666&bih=890&q=harry+nice+bridge&oq=harry+nice+bridge&gs_l=img.3..0j0i8i30l3j0i24l6.6635.9016.0.9184.18.17.0.1.1.0.151.1823.8j9.17.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.18.1822.HPK4IlpdAcE#tbm=isch&q=delaware+memorial+bridge) which we’ve crossed dozens of times. The one time i’ve ever really gotten the willies about a bridge was not even over a broad expanse of water. We were driving north from the University of Miami, up toward Palm Beach County, during afternoon rush - and at one point on 95 we were going up a steep incline on a highway bridge, and we couldn’t see anything beyond the point at which the road crested the hill. I knew in my logical brain that the road simply could NOT end where it disappeared from view, but my lizard brain was shouting “YOU’RE GOING 65 MPH SURROUNDED BY HUNDREDS OF CARS AND YOU’RE GONNA DIEEEEE!!!”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/42 "2016-02-25T14:13:34Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > …my lizard brain was shouting “YOU’RE GOING 65 MPH SURROUNDED BY HUNDREDS OF CARS AND YOU’RE GONNA DIEEEEE!!!”. This was my entire 2 weeks in Bali, and I wasn’t even the one driving. Volcanic mountains, crazy drivers, overloaded buses and entire families on a single moped. Absolutely insane. By the end of the trip, I’d almost found my Zen. But I’d still never rent a car there! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/43 "2016-03-04T16:29:48Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > [Relevant article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331679/Chesapeake-Bay-bridge-The-Maryland-bridge-terrifying-locals-pay-25-company-shuttle-car.html). I had to drive across the bridge (both ways) to attend a wedding in Ocean City, MD. It doesn’t look that scary - there are no steep grades or anything - but the superstructure is [pretty much built into the road surface so it’s super narrow in most places](http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bridgebay1.jpg). I was basically okay - I don’t mind heights, and my primary concern was not denting the rental car by colliding with some moron in an RV - but my wife was literally huddling in the footwell by the time we were halfway across. The Bay Bridge never bothered me until the first time I drove over the grated part . . . on a motorcycle! Looking straight down to the water through the grate was quite vertigo inducing. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/44 "2016-03-04T17:14:32Z")
> [@txjim](#): > > How about something from Norway? > > [http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/03/storseisundetthe-bridge-to-nowhere.html](http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/03/storseisundetthe-bridge-to-nowhere.html) One of my favorites, especially when I was a small boy, [ends in a tunnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folda_Bridge#/media/File:Folda_Bridge.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/45 "2016-03-04T23:16:05Z")
> [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](#): > > The Bay Bridge never bothered me until the first time I drove over the grated part . . . on a motorcycle! Looking straight down to the water through the grate was quite vertigo inducing. That was definitely the worst part for me (though I was in a car). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/46 "2016-03-05T00:19:09Z")
> [@Norse](#): > > One of my favorites, especially when I was a small boy, [ends in a tunnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folda_Bridge#/media/File:Folda_Bridge.jpg). Reminds me of the first time I took Amtrak from DC to Chicago, going through [this tunnel](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harpers+Ferry+Amtrak/@39.324529,-77.730722,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s92789450!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2F_ueDuvnd2NTrJ2ql7stgFX1xlWiobY7UEi21F6bhfu3uXx1hKIssBTq4Av9wK1BvhTOmWzcMawU6f9Hp8_EB-BXvzXduqg%3Dw203-h152!7i3648!8i2736!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x7a5247528fc1febb!6m1!1e1) onto [this bridge](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harpers+Ferry+Amtrak/@39.324572,-77.730711,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s92789487!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2F0VEOBTjQeZ7jNVh6z1IR7Zh5Qr6cC5AIDdy93FSd4j2DDvKk8KV4kxVuGBLwZSS0ZxsC7DMMGUhBIzUKM274dOJIxI7Yag%3Dw203-h152!7i3648!8i2736!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x7a5247528fc1febb!6m1!1e1) and pulling into [Harpers Ferry](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harpers+Ferry+Amtrak/@39.324596,-77.731163,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s99574588!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FnORcRf3HB67j5EYdCQL4RmFXREzCwNcwLcCnMZeiRGOONaCKEH8Ne75ytbIdyksOrNGTqnv1mAwC7KcGpIlqKOEg-v5PIQ%3Dw203-h152!7i2048!8i1536!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x7a5247528fc1febb!6m1!1e1). ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/47 "2016-03-05T00:46:30Z")
You guys probably wouldn’t like[The Lion’s Back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7Auk1ZT4s) ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/48 "2016-03-05T01:02:51Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > You guys probably wouldn’t like[The Lion’s Back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7Auk1ZT4s) Ahhhhhhhhhh . . . . Located in Nope, Utah, if the internets are to be trusted. Pretty much sums up my reaction, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/49 "2016-03-05T01:11:06Z")
My too-late-to-edit edit: it’s in Moab, not Nope. Less ominous, but I’ll still opt out. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/50 "2016-03-05T23:30:33Z")
I can’t find a cite to hand, but at one time there was apparently a train bridge in Dublin, that was too much for the passengers, who disembarked, took a bus over the River Liffey and rejoined the train on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![maxjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@maxjohnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maxjohnson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/51 "2016-03-07T19:03:48Z")
I know this is a bit unrelated, but I would like to drive up this hill. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/myy4K9B9zT0/maxresdefault.jpg "F1 mythic corners onboard | F1 1991-2013 - Eau Rouge-Raidillon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myy4K9B9zT0) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/52 "2016-03-07T20:04:52Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > My too-late-to-edit edit: it’s in Moab, not Nope. Less ominous, but I’ll still opt out. You had it right the first time. Not just nope but HELL NOPE! I can’t imagine what possessed the first person that drove down that thing. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/53 "2016-03-07T21:54:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > [Relevant article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331679/Chesapeake-Bay-bridge-The-Maryland-bridge-terrifying-locals-pay-25-company-shuttle-car.html). I had to drive across the bridge (both ways) to attend a wedding in Ocean City, MD. It doesn’t look that scary - there are no steep grades or anything - but the superstructure is [pretty much built into the road surface so it’s super narrow in most places](http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bridgebay1.jpg). I was basically okay - I don’t mind heights, and my primary concern was not denting the rental car by colliding with some moron in an RV - but my wife was literally huddling in the footwell by the time we were halfway across. Try not to think about the [possibility](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081100422.html) of an oncoming driver falling asleep and swerving into your lane, or the [chance](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/video-captures-womans-survival-after-car-tumbles-off-chesapeake-bay-bridge/2013/07/24/be9c5342-f48b-11e2-a2f1-a7acf9bd5d3a_story.html) of your car being rammed off the bridge such that you have to fight your way up to the surface and swim to some rocks to survive. ;)🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/54 "2016-03-07T22:08:02Z")
I don’t plan on going back to Ocean City - the wedding was only there because my wife’s cousin met her intended there - so I should be okay. But you’re a bastard. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/55 "2016-03-07T23:12:09Z")
This thread is making me faint. I don’t know when/if I ever actually rode over one of those kinds of bridges, but it is makes an appearance in my nightmare rotation regularly! ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/56 "2016-03-08T14:18:26Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I think I would not like to go over any of those bridges. I live near [this one](http://www.vacationrentalstpete.com/uploads/2/1/7/3/21734302/7250267_orig.jpg) and it wasn’t until I drove over it that I suddenly developed a skeevy feeling about bridges. At first it was just \*that \*one and I thought it was because the remains of a prior bridge that got hit by a freighter were still in the water and it was rather creepy. But no, I must say all bridges are starting to freak me out. I’m not afraid of heights, I love roller coasters, etc. so no idea why. Weird. I used to drive across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge every so often. I’m not a nervous bridge driver\*, but driving that particular bridge definitely made me thoughtful. [Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse) \*I’ve driven the Chesapeake Bay Bridge multiple times without qualm. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/57 "2016-03-08T14:38:33Z")
> [@Barrett\_Bonden](#): > > I used to drive across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge every so often. I’m not a nervous bridge driver\*, but driving that particular bridge definitely made me thoughtful. [Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse) > > \*I’ve driven the Chesapeake Bay Bridge multiple times without qualm. Right. The first time I ever laid eyes on it the scene still looked something like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Skyway_Bridge_3.jpg) , which, even though I hadn’t yet heard the story creeped me right the hell out. Add to that the many suicides that occur there each year and it’s just a combo meal of revulsion. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527/58 "2016-03-09T00:50:10Z")
When I was a kid, I loved going through tunnels. I remember going to visit my aunt and uncle in Philadelphia, and I think we went through four mountain tunnels and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. > [@robby](#): > > Houston now has at least [**seven** five-level stack interchanges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_interchange#Texas-style_stack) on Beltway 8, plus another one on the 610 loop. My mom refuses to drive over the highest ones. :rolleyes: Jesus, that looks like shit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527.md?page=2)