Hey DU, let's talk about bridges! What's your favorite bridge? Why?
What's under it? Does it have a good story? I will start. I am torn between Milwaukee's infamous Hoan Bridge (see The Blues Brothers movie) and the bridge between Clearwater, FL and Clearwater Beach that was partially constructed, then had to be blown up for a do over. All kinds of saltwater creatures are under it. I have never seen a goat on that bridge. I am not in Wisconsin often enough to know much about goats in Milwaukee.
Some of you will know this is #3 in the series. 
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I spent the 18th and 19th years of my life in Sydney. I spent one summer exploring the east coast of Australia. I've crossed it many of times for many occasions.
Opened in March 1883.
I commuted over that bridge to and from Boston for almost 20 years. There may be more spectacular, modern, historic bridges in the world, but to me this was my life, whether going to work, a Red Sox game, an event at the Gardens, shopping in Downtown Boston, volunteering at the Boston Marathon, we got there by going over the "the Bridge".
It was never really famous. The Black Bridge that spanned the Gunnison River in Grand Junction, CO. I liked it because, in high school, us kids would go down there and jump off the bridge into the river. That was our fun. Now most of us just jumped from the height of the road. That was maybe 15' off the surface of the river. But, according to legend, there were some who would climb up on the top of the bridge to jump. It seems to me that I witnessed this once. Or could it just be my memory is faulty and trying to make my childhood out to be grander than it really was?
Factoid: I've repeated jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.
True story with dubious bragging rights if I don't tell you the entire story.
Nothing cooler than heading into The City on a clear day around Sunset, on the Bay Bridge in my book.
I crossed it back and forth many times while I was in Prague, which is an amazingly beautiful city. A few pics of the bridge...
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Especially that one in the snow. OMG, so romantic. 
Here is the Charles Bridge seen from of of the castle towers:
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Published on Oct 2, 2017
The Iconic Brooklyn Bridge from modernity to its Construction
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Inside the limestone and granite structures that support the on-ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge, designer John A. Roebling originally envisioned shopping arcades, to be called the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage. Today, the towers and the anchorages on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides are closed, but open windows on the Manhattan side give an inkling to the spaces inside.
It is known that the vaults were constructed first in 1876, likely to appease distributors like Luyties and Racky’s whose storage facilities were demolished to build the bridge. A faded logo for Pol Rogers, the French champagne house favored by Winston Churchill, is still visible. The vaults were closed during World War I and repurposed for non-alcohol storage uses during Prohibition. In 1934, six months after the repeal of Prohibition, the city ceremoniously turned over the keys to a new tenant, Anthony Oechs & Co., an alcohol distributor, at a party inside the vaults attended by hundreds of revelers.
https://untappedcities.com/2018/05/24/inside-the-champagne-vaults-of-the-brooklyn-bridge-on-the-135th-anniversary-photos/
especially when seen from a balcony room on a cruise ship as I am here
I vaguely remember the old one - I mean I was only 4 when we moved from Sarasota but I've been over both many times to visit folks in Venice and points south.
I remember them building the second side of the first cantilever. I remembered a decade later it all to well when the ship hit it.
In 1998 I drove over the one you posted.
with Greenpeace protesters blockading a Shell Oil drilling rig on it's way to Alaska.
Comet - it tastes like gasoline!;
Comet - it makes you vomit;
So eat some Comet, and vomit, today!
I myself grew up with a view of the Whitestone Bridge:
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge
Though I had plenty views of this bridge for nearly four years when I was in Dundee... Not as pretty mind...
It has been in many movies and was recently in some new filming.
I sat for 30 minutes last week while the wrapped filming.
I drive it daily and the approach and entire road is iconic south, lined with palm trees and salt marsh.
This carries foot, automobile, light rail and heavy rail - all on different roadways. It's also a drawbridge because the Willamette River has quite a bit of marine traffic.
Especially with Bobbie Gentry walking across it in 1967.
Scenic views of the no-tell motels on Route 1, and saves money on NJ Turnpike fares.
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... in Stuart, FL. Carries US-1 over the St Lucie Inlet, and at night you can take a stroll along these illuminated boardwalks right underneath the bridge. A great place to watch the July 4 fireworks, too!
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It's a medieval bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy. It has all sorts of interesting shops where you can bargain for hand-made crafts or high end luxury items (if you're not a poor student doing the Grand Tour by thumbing) lol.
Between Florence and Yachats on the Oregon coast you can pull off 101 and park under this bridge and find so much to explore - have spent some of the best hours of my life there. All of his bridges are full of grace but the setting of this one is other-worldly.
Here’s my second favorite, Chenonceau over the river Cher in France:
Pedestrian bridge in Dublin.
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You were in Chesapeake City, Maryland and we kids would be driving mom and dad nuts!
Passed under this magnificent structure at sunrise while on a Baltic cruise. Originating as a bridge and ending as an underwater tunnel, the high bridge part of the Øresund Bridge has the longest cable-stayed main span of all bridges in the world. That goes for both road and rail traffic. And the tunnel part of Øresundsbron is the world's longest underwater tube tunnel, also for both road and rail traffic.
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It’s worth a trip to the Netherlands just to see the architecture in Rotterdam. I love that city.
It's long and there are two parts that are tunnels under the water, because the ships that dock in Norfolk harbor use it to come in and out.
And the fun part is, that sometimes, if you are very lucky, a submarine will surface right in front of you on one of the islands, and you can watch the big aircraft carriers from there, too, and it is delightful. But you can't plan to see the subs, because their schedules are a secret. 
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I've never been entirely clear on why they needed such a huge bridge to cross what looks like a quiet rural valley, but a bridge that sits above the clouds is impressive.
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And from upthread, the Prague Charles Bridge is a personal favorite. I spent every evening for a week hanging out listening to the buskers there when I was in college.
This is the Ribblehead Viaduct, in the north west of England. Opened in 1876, it carries the Settle to Carlisle railway across one of the bleakest and most inhospitable parts of the Pennines. On a misty winter's morning, this Victorian marvel looks like something from a gothic horror film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribblehead_Viaduct
Loving this topic, by the way. Long may it continue!
