I have crossed the Bosphorus on the two older bridges (they have full names, but everyone calls them “First Bridge” or “Second Bridge”). Famous in some circles, anyway.
I have in fact raced across this when we realized the castle museum was closing soon. And yes, we jog/walked up to it. [tangent: if we ever moved to Germany, that is one of two candidate towns]
I have both driven over and walked across the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, did the same with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and gotten halfway across that bridge over the river Kwai, but it blew up.
Montreal’s Victoria Bridge by train (its original purpose) and car. Opened in 1859, and rebuilt in 1898, it retains its 1859 stone piers and 1898 superstructure.
Victoria Bridge (Montreal) - Wikipedia
Quebec Bridge by train, car, and foot. Collapsed twice before completion in 1917 - killing dozens of workers.
Quebec Bridge - Wikipedia
Brooklyn Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge - walked across both several times.
Auckland Harbour Bridge - drove across and sailed under.
I’ve been over Astoria-Megler, Golden Gate and SF Bay among others. I never went over the
since I wasn’t born until seven years later, though I’ve been over its remains and cross its successor fairly frequently.
Oh, yeah, I’ve been across that bridge a few times, mainly to get to and from the Georgetown Sunny’s Surplus.
Fortunately it was rebuilt…better.
Brooklyn Bridge
Verazzano Narrows
George Washington
Rainbow
Key
Woodrow Wilson
Chesapeake Bay
Does 59th Street count? It has a song named after it.
Indeed. In the long run it was probably for the best that it failed, since it was a two lane bridge and until the second (or third, depending on how you count) bridge opened in 2007 traffic on the four lane 1950 bridge was a nightmare.
Yeah, I was going to include the Tacoma Narrows, since “Gallopin’ Gertie” is infamous (and led to changes in the way bridges were built since its collapse), but technically I was born way too late to go over that actual bridge. I drive over its predecessor on a fairly regular basis (and have crossed it many times since I was a kid having grown up in the area).
I’m sure I have been over the Golden State Bridge before because I lived in Oakland when I was a baby, but I don’t remember it.
Ponchartrain causeway. Let me tell you that was creepy. It feels like the road is floating and moving. I got so car sick.
Some big ass bridge over The Mississippi river. I forget which one.
Big Dam bridge in LittleRock.
Also did that once, with Dad driving; that one experience was enough there as well.
Yes, it’s quite lovely, isn’t it? We stayed there as a convenient stopoff during a longer road trip, and it turned out to be a highlight. We were surprised how much we enjoyed it.
Not as many as I have burned.
London: Tower, London, Millennium, probably Westminster but I don’t really recall
Paris: Pont des Arts (the one with all the locks); wandered all over Île de la Cité, but managed to miss Pont Neuf
USA: Lake Pontchartrain, Golden Gate, the new Bay Bridge, Bixby Creek Bridge (plan ahead if you want to play “Cold Little Heart” as you cross it because there isn’t any cell service there)
Nashville, kinda (re: both location and fame): Natchez Trace bridge
Probably all the famous ones in London and Paris. Rialto bridge and Bridge of Sighs in Venice. All the bridges in New York. Chesapeake Bridge & Tunnel. Golden Gate Bridge, Oresund Bridge, Confederation Bridge PEI to NB, Rainbow and Peace Bridges in Buffalo/Niagara.
Probably missed a few.
On a US tour I crossed in various modes a reasonable selection of the US bridges mentioned. A favorite was the Hell Gate Bridge in New York, Bradfield’s inspiration for the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
A bit different, I have crossed four of the bridges over the Yangtze. None are small.
Good thing you can fly out of the plummeting car.
Oh, I forgot to mention the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I walked across it on a trip Down Under back in 2012.
Thinking of other bridges that might be considered famous, as a kid I rode across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay (the current bridge, not the one that collapsed in 1980).
Driving: George Washington Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Whitestone Bridge, Tappan Zee Bridge, Hamilton Fish Bridge, Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore)
Walking: Pont Neuf, Tower Bridge, Francis Scott Key Bridge (VA to DC, not the one in Baltimore), several other bridges over the Seine (over and under).
I drove over the Hernando de Soto Bridge where I-40 crosses the Mississippi on May 11th 2021 around 10AM. It became (in)famous about 30 minutes later when engineers discovered a cracked support girder and closed the bridge. It did not fully open until August 2nd
