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 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 the time we crossed it, nor the 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!!!”.
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!
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.
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.
Try not to think about the possibility of an oncoming driver falling asleep and swerving into your lane, or the chance 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.
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.
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!
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
*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 , 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.
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.
