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John Varela
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Brookport Bridge to Paducah
A trip across the Ohio River on the Brookport Bridge in the direction from Brookport, Illinois to Paducah, Kentucky. Notice how the tire tracks are aligned and how close the oncoming cars stick to the side wall.
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Brookport Bridge to Brookport
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From Paducah, Kentucky across the Ohio River to Brookport, Illinois on the Irvin S. Cobb Bridge, also known as "The World's Scariest Bridge". It is worse than, for example, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
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We had to drive a semi over that. There weren't signs telling us not to go that way, and once in front of it, they had made no way for to turn around. With other truckers behind us pushing forward (GPS rerouted all us this way) we moved forward. Scared the crud out of us and cars were hugging the other side of the bridge and even stopping for us to get by.
BRO DON'T GO ON IT!
That bridge is scarier than the Huey P Long bridge in my home state of Louisiana
Why did they add steel grating in the first place?
gee is it really bridge making that noise or is it the road itself?
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It looks cool. What makes it eerie is that the grilles they designed last, playing fearful melody. It’s also claustrophobic-triggering bridge
That didn't look like 25 mph driving to me.
That river is so wide at first I thought it was the mighty Missip. Lol
My wife curled up in the passenger side floor board and cried
Lol..just a metal deck..completely safe
@@jaytodd5809 rode motorcycle's across it several years ago, no traffic on the bridge that day, I remember there were holes in it you could stick your foot through
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Strange bridge...not very motorcycle friendly..
As a boy from Brookport, I walked over this bridge sometimes every day. At that time Semis and Greyhound buses were allowed. Many times semis or buses would be traveling in opposite directions, and I would have to climb over the rail until they passed, for obvious reasons. Looking back, it was very foolish, but then, kids did foolish things. We also used to get under the pavement (yes, the roadway over the bridge was asphalt at one time) and wait for the pigeons to come in to roost, so we could grab them. As I said, kids do stupid stuff. I was no different.
I remember it being paved.
@@elizabethgarcia145 Oh my! That is so cool.
Why are you going so fast?
Fast?! He's driving the speed limit. Lol!
@@kimsullivan5576 Really 25 miles an hour?
@@elizabethgarcia145 Yes. Isn't it the required speed limit while crossing the bridge?
@@kimsullivan5576 yes. Just seemed as if he was going so much faster. I guess when I'm the driver it doesn't feel that fast.
@@elizabethgarcia145 I can relate with that and I understand.
No markers of State lines?
There is, just tiny signs on the side of the bridge.
You get used to this bridge eventually. Better than crossing the I24 bridge.
It’s a lot better than the I-24 death trap
That is the only way I go to Paducah from southern Illinois.
That bridge is the reason why I'm scared of bridges today
Good thing you never went over Old Ledbetter.
That is one long ass bridge. What's up with the steel cage-like roadway?
So it doesn’t ice over
Engineering in the 1910s/ 1920s was wierd
@@camerontree2605 The grid floor doesn't date back that far. Up until the early 1970s, the bridge had a perfectly conventional solid bed, it was narrow but otherwise no big deal to drive, and it was the main artery for traffic. In the early '70s, they finished I-24 and put a parallel bridge in slightly up-river, and replaced the solid floor of the Brookport bridge with the current metal-grate affair. So the grid floor is 70s engineering, not 1930s. All that said, the new I-24 bridge has had technical problems almost from the day the ribbon was cut, I wouldn't be shocked if the Brookport bridge is still in use when the I-24 bridge has had to be replaced entirely.
@@csxtrain8666 Ironically, it worked out the other way around, every time it gets a really cold winter rain, that cold metal floor ices up and the bridge sometimes has to be closed, even when the rest of the roads are OK.
What body of water does this bridge cross?
Ohio
Jim Smith so this Kentucky into Illinois?
@@sneakypete139 sort of yeah.
@@sneakypete139 yes
The old blue hummer bridge. This baby can speak out loud.
you can put a coke can through the holes i travel that bridge evertday
Thats crazy!!