Now that’s really scary. Everybody is driving on the wrong side of the road.Every time there’s a driving scene in a British, Australian, or Japanese movie or TV series, I want to yell at them for driving on the wrong side of the road. It takes me a second or two to realize my mistake. It’s probably best for all involved if I never try to drive in a country with left-hand traffic.
The steep side of Eshima Ohashi Bridge is 6.1%. Here’s a vid of a trucker on a 6% in the USA. The rocks and trees will help give you better perspective. Don’t play the vid from the start, or after six minutes.
Piper I think you a due for a good Rockies road trip.
Or Pittsburgh. We’re pretty much nothing BUT bridges here. If I was afraid of bridges, I couldn’t even travel outside my neighborhood. I’m basically surrounded by the creek on both sides.
That’s pretty much what it’s like on every bridge I’ve ever been on. In fact, I’d rather travel on that bridge than the PA Turnpike.
I came here to mention Pittsburgh as well. Not only tons of bridges and hills, but also snow. When my now wife (who has a thing against bridges) came to Pittsburgh with me to meet the parents, she was a freaked out mess (not to mention that my parents at the time lived in BRIDGEVILLE).
Eh, Pittsburgh isn’t all bridges. Some of it is tunnels.
And there are a few places in Cleveland where the interstates are stacked four layers high, too.
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Here’s an example
Yes, I’m talking about the Skyway Bridge. I never knew you could hire someone to drive you over. I hate going over the thing but I haven’t gotten quite that bad yet.
WhyNot, Wacker Dr. is indeed wack! It’s like the city’s founders went out of their way to confound tourists.
I would like to ride my scooter on it.
LA made its 4-level a local reference point.
We have signs to remind you furriners!
Behold, the Great Ocean Road in southern Victoria!!
How about something from Norway?
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/03/storseisundetthe-bridge-to-nowhere.html
I used to work with a woman who lived in Virginia whose family lived somewhere on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and she had to use that service every time she wanted to go home to visit family.
Relevant article. 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. 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.
Get with the times, we’re up to five levels now.
The old Jamestown bridge was indeed scary; you never wanted to go any faster than 40 mph or so. Even after the new bridge was built, they left the old bridge in place for years until the Coast Guard finally made them demolish it.
I drove over the new Jamestown bridge almost every day to go to grad school at the University of Rhode Island. (We lived in Newport at the time.) The new bridge is memorable to me because you could really open it up when going westbound from Jamestown to the mainland. After all, there was no place for a police officer to hide, and you had excellent sight lines once you got over the crest of the bridge. I once hit 115 mph on that bridge in my BMW 325is, which is the fastest I’ve ever driven in the U.S. (I’ve driven considerably faster on the Autobahn in Germany.) In my defense, this stunt was when I was young and stupid.
Houston now has at least seven five-level stack interchanges on Beltway 8, plus another one on the 610 loop. My mom refuses to drive over the highest ones. :rolleyes:
There is a step up in the same segment, but no trick of forced perspective or extreme zoom will make a straight-on shot show a lateral displacement where there isn’t one. (See the first, leftmost frame in the three-picture sequence at OP’s link.)