Has anyone driven across this motherfucking bridge?

I, myself, have. It's nowhere near as scary as other bridges I've driven on such as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland. I feel as if I'm going to fall of that one.

Numerous times.

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Yes, several times. What's the problem? It's a bridge and safe.

Quite often, you can make arrangements - or, in the past you could - to be driven across a bridge. Driver drives your car over.

If you're freaked about a bridge, ask the bridge authority about any options.

Those photos and videos he shows are distorted and make the bridge look much more scary than it really is.

[quote] Yes, several times. What's the problem? It's a bridge and safe.

1. It's in earthquake-prone California.

2. During the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, there was the double decker Oakland Bay Bridge, where the top portion collapsed onto the lower portion, trapping and/or killing many people in their cars, who were squashed like pancakes.

R7 While a short segment of the Bay Bridge fell onto the lower deck, it was the Cypress St. Viaduct, commonly known as the Nimitz Freeway in downtown Oakland that collapsed and pancaked onto the lower portion. 42 people were killed.

Many times. The bridge is old and has been showing its age over the last 10-15 years or so. In recent years, there have been incidents of worn out concrete falling from the upper deck onto the lower. I'm surprised there isn't any apparent discussion within the state about replacing this bridge. It's several miles long and would be astronomically expensive to rebuild. Maybe that's why. But, other aged Bay Area cantilever bridges of its era have been rebuilt. The original Carquinez linking Vallejo -- Crockett, the eastern span / Oakland side of the Bay Bridge, and (not cantilever, but still) the original Benicia -- Martinez Bridge have all been replaced over the past 20-30 years. I wonder what gives with this one.

Ugh - that guy is peppering in 'motherfucker' way too much for no reason. It's not funny, just needlessly repetitive an offensive. One is enough.

[quote] I wonder what gives with this one.

Apparently the concrete.

Agreed.