Favourite 'Actual' Bridges

[Bjornebye]

8 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Veiwer discretion advised, I think it’s quit stunning though.

 

Edit The Sad Parts - Modest Mouse.

 

 

What is it? Wont work for me 

[Bjornebye]

5 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Golden Gate definitely, I'd love to see it. The Mersey Gateway is pretty impressive to be fair even though it's more expensive than drugs.

It looks great from Spike Island but they are horrible robbing scamming bastards. I fucking hate that bridge. They messed with the internet signal at one end so you cant put the one crossing payment through. Those who forget dont get an email reminding them a week later. Oh no, 6 months later a baylfits letter from Marsden for 125 quid with no option to appeal. Looked into it when we got stung and they've done the same to hundreds (probably thousands) of people. A proper racket and a half and they wont entertain discussions about it. I wanted to bomb Halton council over it. Daylight fucking robbery. 

5 hours ago, RJ Fan club said:

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy

 

 

I'd give anything to walk through it with nobody else on it. 

[Bruce Spanner]

9 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

What is it? Wont work for me 

It’s a music video set on the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

It’s not the easiest of viewing, but I think it’s beautiful in a way, incredibly sad and upsetting though.

 

Its from a film called ‘The Bridge’ from memory.

 

Type in the band name and song on YouTube, you can’t miss it. No idea why they’ve started doing this.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

It’s a music video set on the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

It’s not the easiest of viewing, but I think it’s beautiful in a way, incredibly sad and upsetting though.

 

Its from a film called ‘The Bridge’ from memory.

 

Type in the band name and song on YouTube, you can’t miss it. No idea why they’ve started doing this.

I can only assume it's about jumpers. 

[Bruce Spanner]

5 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I can only assume it's about jumpers. 

Yes, and those that don’t.

 

Its a real insight in to humans. 

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Yes, and those that don’t.

 

Its a real insight in to humans. 

My missus was telling me a while back she saw something about survivors of jumps/suicide attempts. A guy does mental health workshops and he has interviews loads of people who lived. He said every single one said that as soon as they left the bridge they immediately changed their mind and "saw the light" if you like. I think 34 survivors only 1 went back and did it again. Very sad. The human brain can be a seriously evil bastard. 

[RJ Fan club]

50 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I'd give anything to walk through it with nobody else on it. 

Dial that up to the Vasari Corridor, alone. A 1km private corridor built for the Medici from their Palace on one side of the Arno into the Uffizi.

 

I've walked the parts in the Uffizi at the end of the day when it was quiet (as quiet as it ever gets)

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasari_Corridor

[RJ Fan club]

 

Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, Taos, New Mexico, USA.

 

Crossed it 2006, I was travelling west to east, didn’t even give thought that I’d be crossing the Rio Grande. It’s fooking massive 

 

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

My missus was telling me a while back she saw something about survivors of jumps/suicide attempts. A guy does mental health workshops and he has interviews loads of people who lived. He said every single one said that as soon as they left the bridge they immediately changed their mind and "saw the light" if you like. I think 34 survivors only 1 went back and did it again. Very sad. The human brain can be a seriously evil bastard. 

Is that the one where a camera is set to film for a year on the bridge? There's people just walking along as usual and then someone just hops over the side out of the blue, mad but who will ever know what goes on in anyones head at the point of departure. 

Plus I wouldn't of thought the view from below any bridge is much cop. 

 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, easytoslip said:

Is that the one where a camera is set to film for a year on the bridge? There's people just walking along as usual and then someone just hops over the side out of the blue, mad but who will ever know what goes on in anyones head at the point of departure. 

Plus I wouldn't of thought the view from below any bridge is much cop. 

 

Not sure mate. Bruce posted that youtube video, I assume that must be it? 

[Bruce Spanner]

3 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

Is that the one where a camera is set to film for a year on the bridge? There's people just walking along as usual and then someone just hops over the side out of the blue, mad but who will ever know what goes on in anyones head at the point of departure. 

Plus I wouldn't of thought the view from below any bridge is much cop. 

 

Yeah, somebody has edited that down in to a music video.

 

I obviously don’t ‘like’ it, but I think it has a real beautiful human quality to it and makes you think, a lot! 

[easytoslip]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

Not sure mate. Bruce posted that youtube video, I assume that must be it? 

I didn't watch it, I'm sure it wasn't allowed at some stage for obvious reasons, really sad. 

[easytoslip]

Just now, Bruce Spanner said:

Yeah, somebody has edited that down in to a music video.

 

I obviously don’t ‘like’ it, but I think it has a real beautiful human quality to it and makes you think, a lot! 

That's right 

[easytoslip]

2 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

It’s a music video set on the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

It’s not the easiest of viewing, but I think it’s beautiful in a way, incredibly sad and upsetting though.

 

Its from a film called ‘The Bridge’ from memory.

 

Type in the band name and song on YouTube, you can’t miss it. No idea why they’ve started doing this.

It won't let me watch without verifying my age which seems a work up, I'll try again but it must be that one

[dockers_strike]

Two for me, both in Newcastle. The Tyne Bridge is fucking ace. Used to love driving over it because it is so fucking high above the river.

 

Second one is the lesser known Redheugh Bridge and the geordies have a fucking weird way of saying it. Sounds more like Red hoe but not quite if ya knarr wat I mean!

 

Millenium Bridge is also quite cool as you can feel in bounce if a lot of people walk on it.

[John102]

I must have watched that music video about 50 times today. Its a completely odd feeling to watch it and reflect on it, particularly seeing the fella in black. I believe he was largely the subject of the documentary. Tragic to see people go, with some examples of people just standing idly by.

[VladimirIlyich]

13 hours ago, Elite said:

Runcorn Bridge. Amazing architecture and as the photo below shows, the view is breathtaking.

 

Hahaha! Love it.

[Alan Sex]

Brooklyn Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Menai Bridge, and the Coronado Bridge in San Diego are my favourites that I’ve been on. 

 

Scariest is that little foot bridge out to South Stack lighthouse in Anglesey. 

 

Would like Ike to try the Confederation Bridge in PEI, Canada- 13km long. 

 

 

[Chairman Meow]

On 09/01/2021 at 09:57, YorkshireRed said:

Charles Bridge in Prague. A perfectly adequate view of it from close to one of the riverside restaurants along that stretch. 

 

19 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

Repped. I love this photograph.

 

When I was in my early 20's I was interviewed for a job that would have been in Prague. It's definitely one of those what could have been moments that I look back on it. It was crazy money, free accommodation and with the cost of living in the place I'd have had a lifestyle that I couldn't possibly even dream of having over here.

 

Beautiful place as well, it still annoys me I didn't get it!

 

11 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

Two for me, both in Newcastle. The Tyne Bridge is fucking ace. Used to love driving over it because it is so fucking high above the river.

 

Second one is the lesser known Redheugh Bridge and the geordies have a fucking weird way of saying it. Sounds more like Red hoe but not quite if ya knarr wat I mean!

 

Millenium Bridge is also quite cool as you can feel in bounce if a lot of people walk on it.

Red hoe is a bit off.

 

The heugh is pronounced more like a hybrid of huth with the uth sounding like it would in truth but with an f ending. It that makes any sense.  

[cochyn]

Pont  Fawr, Llanrwst.

 

 

 

Built in 1646 to a design by Inigo Jones. Not only is it beautiful, the engineering that makes the road deck so thin at the summit is astonishing. 

[Bjornebye]

Rialto Bridge - Venice. Had a lovely dinner one night just down from it right next to the water. Stunning bridge in an absolutely stunning place. I had a feeling I'd be disappointed by Venice but it truly is one of the most beautifulpxlaces on the planet. Spent 3 days there and apart from nearly getting my eyes scratched out by some old woman outside a church while she shouted "madonna' at me it was superb. 

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Eshima Ohashi Bridge in Matsui, Japan

 

 

 

[tokyojoe]

28 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Eshima Ohashi Bridge in Matsui, Japan

 

 

 

I've not got much of a head for heights. That would freak me out driving over that.

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, tokyojoe said:

I've not got much of a head for heights. That would freak me out driving over that.

My stomach flips going over the smallest of bridges in the car, imagine going over that at any decent speed? I'd rather swim 

[magicrat]

This mf across the Bosphorus was pretty impressive