# Is Google running out of cash?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 29, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642 "2008-06-29T12:28:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642/1 "2008-06-29T12:28:44Z")

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Obviously the Street View car driver [didn’t have any change](http://tinyurl.com/4jbhoh) for the toll booth.

Click the arrow to go forward and… nope, not paying that much!

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642/2 "2008-06-29T14:16:02Z")

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Picks up again right over the bridge. I’m guessing DHS being whiny little anti-terrorism bitches.

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**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642/3 "2008-07-01T18:30:53Z")

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Looks like this is the case with all of the bridges into/out of Manhattan. If you zoom out, you can see that the bridges themselves are all uncolored, but the roads leading up to/from them are colored, with street view available.

I think E-Sabbath has it right.

FWIW, Google Maps doesn’t seem to do the same thing in Boston. You can clearly see the view from the Tobin bridge (Rt1). [Though they call it the Mystic River Bridge](http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=42.384943,-71.047499&panoid=XriME3jgjNy9q7z2l2QL-g&ll=42.394685,-71.044292&spn=0.050964,0.056477&z=14&cbp=1,37.67583789493174,,0,0.5951337024250232)

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642/4 "2008-07-01T18:49:22Z")

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Google Streetview had the US/Canada border on the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, but [it was removed](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=buffalo+ny&ie=UTF8&ll=42.909134,-78.902349&spn=0.012274,0.0212&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.906959,-78.905876&panoid=QXzCxT8n2-qJDhv5vQJZRw&cbp=1,0,,0,5).

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-running-out-of-cash/454642/5 "2008-07-02T01:22:30Z")

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[QUOTE=elmwood]  
Google Streetview had the US/Canada border on the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, but [it was removed](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=buffalo+ny&ie=UTF8&ll=42.909134,-78.902349&spn=0.012274,0.0212&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.906959,-78.905876&panoid=QXzCxT8n2-qJDhv5vQJZRw&cbp=1,0,,0,5).  
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Terrorists, dontcha know.