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Name your local bridges !

I've been on it, a while ago. I thought it was pretty boring, but I was only about 8 at the time.

Most of those bridges are around my area also, Northern DE.
 
theres a few bridges over the river here... congress ave bridge... lamar bridge... 360 bridge (which is picturesque)... dunno other names...
 
By the way, has anyone been on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge? What an amazing feat of engineering!
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I've never been on the 17 mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge / Tunnel. However, there is another Chesapeake Bay Bridge by Annapolis that takes you to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. That bridge is a little over 4 miles long and I've been across that one a few times. 4 miles is quite long - I can't imagine 17 miles - that's a long way to push your car if you run out of gas. 🙂
 
Verazzano Bridge
Goethals Bridge
Bayonne
George Washington
Triboro
Queens-Midtown
Williamsburg
Manhattan bridge
brooklyn bridge

there are more in NY i think
 
Bridges of Portland

There are 11 across the Willamette River (including one rail bridge, 8 of the road bridges are in the downtown area) and 2 across the Columbia River, all within the city limits.

My Fav

edit: for quick reader's sake, they are:
St. John's - gothic suspension
Fremont - largest single arch steel truss span in the world, it was built off-site and lifted 170 feet into place, another record
Broadway
Steel - only bridge in the world with 2 independent vertical lifts on the same span
Burnside - under the east end of this bridge lies the world famous Burnside Skate Park
Morrison
Hawthorne - oldest continuously operating multi-span vertical lift drawbridge in the world, built in 1910
Marquam
Ross Island
Sellwood
Interstate - only drawbridge on an Interstate freeway, IIRC
Glen Jackson
I only listed the railway bridge because it has an odd pecularity, it has the highest-raising vertical drawbridge in the world with a 200 foot lift.

 
Lions Gate
Arthur Lang
Iron Workers Memorial (second narrows)
uhhhhhhhh plently more can't remember them!
 
Too many in Portland...God forbid we ever get a major earthquake. On our wet earth foundation, they'd all liquify quickly.
 
Originally posted by: GuybrushThreepwood
Verazzano Bridge
Goethals Bridge
Bayonne
George Washington
Triboro
Queens-Midtown
Williamsburg
Manhattan bridge
brooklyn bridge

there are more in NY i think
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Outerbridge Crossing
Throg's Neck
Bronx-Whitestone
Queensboro (59th St.)

Queens-Midtown is a tunnel. 🙂

There are probably still ones that we are forgetting about.
Being as how the Bronx is the only borough of NYC that is located on the US mainland, there are a lot of bridges and tunnels

 
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Most folks don't really pay attention, but towns normally have hundreds of bridges 🙂 They won't have names though.
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True - and many of these are in disrepair.
 
Antioch Bridge

Benicia-Martinez Bridge

Carquinez Bridge

Dumbarton Bridge

Richmond-San Rafael Bridge

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

San Mateo-Hayward Bridge

 
Originally posted by: morkinva
Around me (Philly) are:

Benjamin Franklin
Betsy Ross
Walt Whitman
Tacony-Palmyra

By the way, has anyone been on the <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cbbt.com/" target=blank>Chesapeake Bay Bridge?</A> What an amazing feat of engineering!
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What about the Commodore Barry and the Burlington-Bristol? Some Philly folk you guys turned out to be 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: GuybrushThreepwood
Verazzano Bridge
Goethals Bridge
Bayonne
George Washington
Triboro
Queens-Midtown
Williamsburg
Manhattan bridge
brooklyn bridge

there are more in NY i think
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Outerbridge Crossing
Throg's Neck
Bronx-Whitestone
Queensboro (59th St.)

Queens-Midtown is a tunnel. 🙂

There are probably still ones that we are forgetting about.
Being as how the Bronx is the only borough of NYC that is located on the US mainland, there are a lot of bridges and tunnels
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Pretty much everything said above. I'll add in Tappan Zee and Kosciuszko.
 
Originally posted by: PSYWVic
Bridges of Portland

There are 11 across the Willamette River (including one rail bridge, 8 of the road bridges are in the downtown area) and 2 across the Columbia River, all within the city limits.

My Fav

edit: for quick reader's sake, they are:
St. John's - gothic suspension
Fremont - largest single arch steel truss span in the world, it was built off-site and lifted 170 feet into place, another record
Broadway
Steel - only bridge in the world with 2 independent vertical lifts on the same span
Burnside - under the east end of this bridge lies the world famous Burnside Skate Park
Morrison
Hawthorne - oldest continuously operating multi-span vertical lift drawbridge in the world, built in 1910
Marquam
Ross Island
Sellwood
Interstate - only drawbridge on an Interstate freeway, IIRC
Glen Jackson
I only listed the railway bridge because it has an odd pecularity, it has the highest-raising vertical drawbridge in the world with a 200 foot lift.
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What he said. 🙂

You all should check out that link. We have some beautiful (and not so..) bridges.. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: morkinva
Around me (Philly) are:

Benjamin Franklin
Betsy Ross
Walt Whitman
Tacony-Palmyra

By the way, has anyone been on the <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cbbt.com/" target=blank>Chesapeake Bay Bridge?</A> What an amazing feat of engineering!
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Delaware Memorial
Commodore Barry
 
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