Here’s the bridge. The Foresthill Bridge is the highest in California at 730 feet and located outside Sacramento. I think I’ll have plenty of company when I say I’d never climb out onto the catwalk or the girders below it. Yet lots of people do. On Tuesday a woman risked it and while taking a selfie … Continue reading A Gephyrophobiac Would Never Do This
Bridge News
Don’t Judge a Bridge by Its Cables
Aside from having to cross a bridge, there's probably nothing worse for a gephyrophobiac like me than to hear on the morning news that nearly 56,000 bridges in the United States are structurally deficient. That's what the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) says in a report issued last month. Whaaat? I hear this and my mind envisions … Continue reading Don’t Judge a Bridge by Its Cables
The Highest Bridge in the World Opens
On December 30, 2016, the HIGHEST bridge in the world – the Beipanjiang Bridge - opened to traffic in China. It is 1,854 feet above the Beipanjiang River and connects two mountainous regions. Most of the highest bridges - highest being the measurement from the bridge deck to the water or ground - are in China. I can't grasp … Continue reading The Highest Bridge in the World Opens
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