Oh, right, the International Rainbow Bridge. Shouldn’t needed a reminder about that one.
The oldest bridge I’ve crossed (on foot) was the Pont Neuf in Paris. I once, in the company of Segey Brin, walk exactly halfway across the Golden Gate. I was once driven across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway by someone who commutes over it every day (he is a professor at Tulane). I have crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge numerous times. I drove across the Confederation and back once. I have driven numerous times across the Ben Franklin (one of the longest suspension bridges when it was built), the Walt Whitman and Del. Mem. Bridge numerous times. I did drive once over the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
I’ve not traveled very much and most of the few bridges I’ve crossed have been mentioned.
I’ll mention my favorite, which I don’t think anyone brought up: Vincent Thomas. It spans the port of L.A. Also, I’ve lost track of all the movies and tv shows where it’s been featured.
Sadly, it is the site of Tony Scott’s (brother of director Ridley Scott) suicide.
To the folks that mentioned the Sunshine Skyway in Fl., I hate hate hate that one. The first time I crossed it, when I was brand new to FL, I knew nothing of the prior bridge or it’s tragic history. At that point there were still big parts of the ruined bridge in the water. Just looking at it gave me feelings of dread. Adding to that, it’s a rather steep climb up and is often closed due to wind. It is a notorious site for jumpers, including my ex’s brother 
Has anyone mentioned the two floating bridges across Lake Washington by Seattle? I’ve been across them several times.
At the time it was the longest in the world, but now it’s the 3rd longest, but I hiked across the Charles Kuonen suspension bridge in Randa Switzerland.
During the Ventian Festa del Redentore a pontoon bridge is constructed from the island of Giudecca to the main part of Venice. It was wild crossing it late at night among tens of thousands of drunked partiers while it bobbed up and down.
Seriously interesting those floating bridges…what kind of risks do they carry of being damaged or disabled.?
I don’t think so, but they’re great additions to the thread. And come to think of it, I’ve been across those also.
Somebody mentioned the bascule bridges over the river in Chicago. I walked over those a lot when I visited there. Fascinating things close up!
All the bridges of London including the one in Arizona.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (not the original); driven, walked and bicycled across it, been under it in a boat and train, and flown over it.
The Longfellow Bridge (Longfellow wrote a poem about the previous bridge on that site) and the Harvard Bridge (measured in Smoots) across the Charles River.
Drove across the Mackinac Bridge in a rental truck. The truck cab was high enough that I couldn’t see the bridge railing through the side window, which makes it a little unnerving.
Ridden across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge a couple times on a bicycle.
I’m one of very few people to have ridden a bicycle through the Ted Williams Tunnel under Boston Harbor.
I’ve crossed the Mississippi River on stepping stones.
I’ve been across two that are no longer floating. The one across Hood Canal sank in a storm decades ago, and one of the Lake Washington Bridges sank as it was closed and being renovated.
I rode over the Tacoma Narrows bridge shortly after it’s opening in 1940. Even then it was notorious because you could detect the swing as you drove across. We kids in the back seat made a big deal out of it.
Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge (had to, after reading McCullouch’s book about it)
Been over the George Washington Bridge, the Tappan Zee bridge, and the Bear Mountain Bridge more times than I can count.
Been across the London Bridge (Tower Bridge) by foot and Westminster Bridge (by Parliament/Big Ben) and the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls.
Been across the Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge (the world’s smallest real suspension bridge) more times than I can count.
The Golden Gate Bridge
Been across the Pulaski Skyway and the Verrazano Narrows bridges a great many times. Also Outerbridge Crossing between the southern tip f Staten Island and New Jersey.
I’ve probably been across some famous bridges in Rome, but I don’t recall, if so.
Been across the Chesaeake Bay Bridge (and when I was a kid, I in the pre-bridge days, crossed it by ferry).
In Boston I’ve been across the Leonard P. Zakim /Bunker Kill Memorial Bridge and the Tobin Bridge. Not to mention countless crossing of the Harvard Bridge (counting the Smoots), the LOngfellow Bridge (with its “salt shakers”), the BU Bridge, and the Arthur Fiedler Footbridge*.
- After my freshman year I told my high school music teacher/band leader that “they have a bridge in Boston named after Arthur Fiedler.” His reply: “They have a bridge named ‘Arthur’?”
That was on my old running route. Those Smoots were mocking me and my slow pace - Halfway to Hell for sure. Interestingly, that bridge is right in front of MIT, nowhere near Harvard. The bridges near Harvard are the Anderson and the Weeks footbridge.
The Zakim bridge on I-93 is probably the most recognizable Boston bridge these days. Other significant bridges near Boston are the Bourne and Sagamore bridges across the Cape Cod Canal, the Eliot bridge further up the Charles, and the Piscataqua River Bridge between NH and Maine on I-95.
Of course, the MIT students had a story to account for that.
When the bridge was first built, they had an essay contest between the students at MIT and Harvard to decide who got the bridge named after their schol.
The winning essay came from …MIT
It argued that the bridge ought to be named after Harvard, because no MIT engineer would ever build a bridge so poorly designed.
It’s not true, of course, but if you were used to walking across that quarter of a mile span in the mid 1970s and a big truck went by, sending the bridge into oscillations, you’d appreciate it.
They’ve since fixed the bridge so that it doesn’t do that.
I forgot that one; it was several decades ago that I crossed it.
I walked over all seven bridges in Konigsberg. I didn’t have a lot of time so I just went over each bridge once.
Maybe I should have just said that I’ve crossed all the bridges connecting the NYC boroughs to the mainland or Manhattan to the outer boroughs. The exception is the Bayonne Bridge, which I’m pretty sure I never crossed. I also drove over Pontchartrain, but don’t remember it being anything other than long.
Been across the Evergreen Point (old one), Mercer Island and Hood Canal bridges.
Of those, the old Evergreen Point one was interesting. If the wind was strong from the south (the bulk of the lake direction), waves get big enough to break against the bridge and splash across the windshield in large thumps. Wipers on on a clear day.
London Bridge and Tower Bridge are completely different bridges more than half a mile apart. Tower Bridge is Tower Bridge, London Bridge is a completely unremarkable 1970s bridge that happens to be built 30 metres from the site of earlier bridges that were much longer because the Thames hadn’t been embanked yet.
So many people here have mentioned London Bridge here that I’m wondering if others have also confused it with Tower Bridge. I don’t think any British people see London Bridge as a tourist destination when they’re visiting London. If you think of interesting bridges in London, for me it wouldn’t even make the top 5 when you have Tower, Hammersmith, Hungerford, Westminster, Cannon St Station, Millenium, Kew etc.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned being across the Tay Bridge, where you can still see the remains of the original which famously fell down in a storm in 1879, when it was the longest bridge in the world. Surely someone other than me has been across it?
This is our third day in Berat, and we got to walk across this bridge today. The bridge is pretty neat, but what makes the location special is turning around and seeing The Thousand Windows.
I know, but “London Bridge” is a common name for Tower Bridge, which is why I added that in parentheses.
No, it isn’t. No one in Britain ever calls Tower Bridge “London Bridge” without quickly being corrected. There may be other cultures where so many people wrongly tell each other that the bascule bridge next to the Tower of London is called “London Bridge” that it becomes a thing, but that doesn’t stop them from being wrong every single time.