Worst bridge you’ve crossed?

I used it as a short cut back to WI. When I had a delivery in that part of MN. To cut off a dozen or so miles of crap traffic.
Its a good bridge, minus the S curve at the WI side.

 

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Hwy 212 at Lake Oahe, in SD. Was a fun bridge for my wife and I when we crossed it with our camper. Two weeks ago on vacation.

 

The one bridge that still makes my toes curl to think about it was getting to an oil rig SE of Tulsa. The turn by turn directions said "make SURE you are lined up straight to the bridge 2.7 miles in on the lease road."

At 2.65 miles there was a 110° right turn. I swung wide into the rancher's chewed up field and started down a 20' muddy drop, then STOPPED. I realized that wide swing wasn't nearly enough to get my trailer lined up straight.

So I backed up into an already chewed up rancher's field to bring my trailer in line. Then I EASED forward to that slick, muddy 20' drop to the "bridge".

Did I say "bridge"?

It was about a 30' long piece of 2" thick steel placed across the creek. There was a 6-8' drop to the creek. The steel bridge was just wide enough to have the outside edge of rubber on the edge of steel.

It was covered with slippery mud. On the far side were deep ruts going up the muddy 20' rise.

I engaged the power divider and with the strength of knowing hundreds of truckers had been across this bridge before and NO WAY would I be the first to chicken out I lowered down to the bridge deck, eased across until almost reaching the far shore, then eased into full throttle to churn my way up.

Still gives me the willies thinking about that bridge.

 

This was before then. Way before the notch was cut at Sideling,and before the elevated stuff was built east of Cumberland. Shipways Truckstop,climbing Negro Mountain. (real name you all,look it up) before Flintstone. Very little freeway was built between Hancock and Cumberland. You drove west out of Cumberland on the old road,was signed US 40-48. Old road through Lavale,used to stop in the shopping center steak house there and eat sometimes. Two lanes out to Grantsville and beyond,past the Fruit Market. At Keysers Ridge,the road split. US 40 went to Uniontown,US 48 went towards Morgantown.From Keysers Ridge west,a good bit of the freeway was built,but you still had to cross that skinny bridge at Cheat Lake if you went that way. Don't remember the restriction,but it was pretty good. If a car saw you coming across the bridge,they would throw it in reverse and gun it. They didn't want to go in the drink with you if the bridge gave way. Always single file with trucks.
At least this is the way my feeble old mind remembers this.

 

Lmao yep

 

that bridge is closed now...

 

Oh really?I haven’t been that way in awhile. Closed for good, or closed for flooding do you know?

 

The McKinley bridge from st . Louis to Vince ILL was a real treat in the late 80s .
Deck was mostly wood planks that rattled around and could see the river thru the bridge.
Pull the mirrors in too.
Did it once and was enough for me .

 

The Blue Bridge in Owensboro, KY. Do yourself a favor and drive the extra distance and take the bridge on US-231. I didn't see any weight limit signs but I was expecting the bridge to collapse at any time considering I had a heavy liquor load. And it's narrow, too.

I drove over those two bridges over the Mississippi and Ohio once and swore never again. After you cross, you get to drive on a narrow levee for several miles to top it off.

 

I can't remember finding a bridge anywhere on any hwy, that bothered me, but anything that is wide enough to fit I call wide enough some don't. Iirc the old hwy 90 bridge across the san jacinto river was pretty narrow and many complained about it, it has been gone for years, but I don't remember it bothering me, and when I ran across it every day I was not even old enough to have a drivers license. lol
I do however remember a couple of times meeting another vehicle on a bridge that didn't stay on their side, sort of what the op started this thread, the most memorable one was way back in the outlaw days, crossing the cimmaron river (I think) in Kansas . A bull wagon ( probably wired real tight back then) drifted 2 feet os more over to my side, too much for the room we had anyway. He finally gave me enough room just before we got together, and after he passed he mentioned on the radio, that this bridge is sure narrow, it wasn't though as far as I am concerned it was plenty wide. I just mentioned that the should have been on my side if he thought his was narrow. lol

I have found some overpasses that would not work, backed out of a few of them over the years, even found a couple that didn't work. and I should have backed out. lol