Stomach-churning pedestrian bridge opens in Portugal

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Late at night, no one else on the walk. Skateboard. You just know somebody is gonna try it.
I would.
I''m 56 and would probably wind up with multiple broken bones, but what a ride !

a reply to: DAVID64
Let us hope it doesn't wobble, like one pedestrian bridge in London.

I have crossed it, but only after it got stabilised.

a reply to: DAVID64

That's pretty cool engineering but I've just remembered , I don't need to go where that bridge is going.


Vertigo and all that.

a reply to: gortex

I watched 14 seconds of that video and there isn't enough
money printed on this planet to get me to walk on it! You
can see all the way down through the floor,no way,no how.

That is the bridge to HELL NO.
Eeeeekkkkk.

originally posted by: mamabeth
a reply to: gortex

I watched 14 seconds of that video and there isn't enough
money printed on this planet to get me to walk on it! You
can see all the way down through the floor,no way,no how.

All the money in the world? Hell, I'd walk there and back and try a tap dance in the middle.

You're safer on that bridge than driving your car down the freeway.

When I was a kid, people used to cross the creeks to get to their houses using a ‘swinging bridge’. It was a series of planks held up by a steel cable. The cable ran between posts on either side of the creek, or sometimes trees.

We would get a bunch of kids out in the middle of them and jump up and down to see how high we could get them to bounce.
We broke one one night. The people that lived there were pissed.

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BUT,I can't see the road through the floor of my car
while I am driving!
Did I ever mention that I have a fear of heights?

originally posted by: mamabeth
a reply to: incoserv

BUT,I can't see the road through the floor of my car while I am driving!

You never rode in a Corvair, did you?

a reply to: DAVID64

That thing has got "NOPE" written all over it!!!

Made me lie on floor for safety just looking.

a reply to: incoserv

I drive a Volvo V-70 station wagon,can not see through
the floor!

originally posted by: Tulpa
That thing has got "NOPE" written all over it!!!

Made me lie on floor for safety just looking.

Crossing that bridge would be easy. Imagine being the folks who got to literally hang out there and build it!

a reply to: gb540

I hope they were paid extremely well.
I must confess that as well as a fear of heights, I have a sort of morbid fascination. I really can't go near the edge, though, because something inside almost feels like it's pulling me towards the drop.
Hard to explain but a bit lit that watery looking thing that Donnie Darko has in the movie.
Or an invisible hand pulling at my shirt.

I wonder what it's like crossing the bridge on a really windy day?

Wow, what a view! I'd try it.
I'd be a little shaky but I'd love to walk across it.

originally posted by: incoserv

originally posted by: mamabeth
a reply to: incoserv

BUT,I can't see the road through the floor of my car while I am driving!

You never rode in a Corvair, did you?

Dang , you are old.
Wait , I guess I am too .

I want to swim the Sky Pool .

Sky Pool

That's sweet..I ride a wheelie across it on my dirtbike, if they let me.

Suck it up!!! Lol

Seems there’s a consistent vertigo on ats
I defo have, vertigo, claustrophobia, fear of drowning ( who doesn’t have a fear of drowning?) ... but I think I’d have a go on that bridge , left/right/bottom support .. maybe .. I’ve beer bravery right now
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