Can you believe that these exist?
I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with these, but I’ve seen a few this year. Prior to that, I was completely unaware of the concept, much less the reality of one-lane bridges.
Travelling through the Ozark Mountains in Southern Missouri with @bluerthangreen earlier this year, we came upon the first one-lane bridge that I had ever seen. Out of nowhere there was some sort of “yield to oncoming traffic” sign and then the road went from two lanes down to one across the bridge.
I can’t say for sure whether or not @bluerthangreen had seen one of these before, but my mind was somewhat blown. In this day and age, it seemed like a very dangerous situation for the “modern drivers” to be in.
More and more often it seems that people are paying less and less attention when they are behind the wheel, so I was a little surprised to see such a thing.
I have seen about four or five of these one-lane bridges so far. All of them were either in southern Missouri or northern Arkansas, in the Ozark Mountains. Is anyone aware or them being anywhere else in the United States or in the world?
You’ve got to admit, they do seem a little strange and perhaps even dangerous. Thankfully, each time that we have encountered them, there were either no other drivers around or people were paying attention.
That does look like a pretty quick bottleneck, but it seems that the roads where we have seen these are not quite as frequently travelled as some others, otherwise that could be a disaster.
Have any of you ever seen these before? If so, how did you respond the first time that you encountered one? Is this a completely new idea for some of you out there?
I think that they are interesting, and was not aware of them until earlier this year, so I hope that you enjoy me sharing about them!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-one-lane-bridge
Until next time…
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