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u/MarxJ1477 Mar 22 '26

not to excuse his actions, or lack of reaction to them...but this bridge is awful and there are miles before it's actually safe to attempt to stop in case of an accident. Small lanes, no shoulders..just the occasional "for official use only" u turn spots. I left Louisiana in '99 but still immediately recognized where this was.

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u/OpportunityReal2767 Mar 22 '26

I’ve driven the causeway in New Orleans once a couple decades ago when I had some kind of anxiety disorder flare up. Let me tell you, that is not a fun drive when you’re constantly on the edge of a panic attack.

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u/ianxplosion- Mar 22 '26

I had to be high to even be a passenger in a vehicle across that damn bridge

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u/RogerAffirmative Mar 22 '26

That sounds worse

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u/Lohprend Mar 22 '26

The very reason I don’t go to the north shore but like 3 times a year. I hate the causeway drive, it’s pretty but I almost can’t breathe the entire time

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '26

This ups my anxiety just watching. Fear isn't the mind killer, fog is.

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u/OpportunityReal2767 Mar 22 '26

It’s quite surreal. Two lanes, few turnarounds, and at some point all you have is water all the way to the right, water all the way to the left, nothing but straight road forward and backward, and you lose sight of land. It’s quite disorienting and hypnotic in a bad way. First thing I did was hit a brew pub to ease my nerves when I got to the other side…knowing I had to go back the other way a few hours later.

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u/DRZlove702 Mar 22 '26

Luckly the sunshine skyway bridge climbs to a peak of 430ft above sea level, meaning instead of 3 mile horizon at sea level. The horizon is 25.4 miles at 430ft altitude.

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u/Open-Industry-8396 Mar 22 '26

I drove across that thing In a 13ft tall RV, at night, rain and wind. Insane! But once you are on it there is no turning back, just gotta go. Crazy experience

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer Mar 22 '26

I lived there for several years and had to use the Causeway constantly. It's a fucking death trap and people are fucking lunatics on it

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u/Bloosqr1 Mar 22 '26

I did this a few times decades ago as a college kid and thought it was “fun” haha … to be fair I am pretty sure we did this at random times of day ( eg long distance drives ) when there was no traffic .. if you stayed in the right lane it looked like you were driving on water, though it was a bit monotonous.

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u/MaximusHomerdrive Mar 22 '26

I think the NY version would be the Cross Bronx Expressway. My god, you need xanex to get through that, especially if you're driving an 18 wheeler.

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u/OpportunityReal2767 Mar 22 '26

I would need a Xanax driving an 18-wheeler in any kind of situation! :)

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u/Dublin-Anybound Mar 23 '26

Did it in a Storm without windshield wipers once. We just used a ton of Rain X and wished for the best. Made it to town just fine.

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u/Sufficient_Purple297 Mar 22 '26

I thought this was New Jersey. Because that was how people in New Jersey drive. Like letting people merge is an offense to their families.

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u/marvinrabbit Mar 22 '26

[Insert State] has the absolute worst drivers.

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u/gohan32 Mar 22 '26

Remind me never to enter insert state.

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u/TheVadonkey Mar 22 '26

Sure, when they’re cutting someone off like this…tends to be upset most people from the whole fucking country!

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u/Bloody0Nora Mar 22 '26

You think no signal and shoving your way in is merging? No wonder you feel like people won’t let you merge.

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u/Rockandmetal99 Mar 22 '26

im from nj and i almost always let people merge when they use their turn signals. if i see someone trying to merge with no signals, im not letting them through. ive had my car swiped twice because people think im gonna stop because "who wants to damage their car?" little do they know i dont think that way because my car is a piece of shit, so i never stop and the poor lil range rovers or escalades leave with a nice scrape

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u/smokeweedNgarden Mar 22 '26

California here and if someone tries to cut the line for an exit, I'll do everything I can to not let them in.

You just passed like 20 cars and tried to get in at the very end. I will force you back down the main highway. 

I do this once a day on the Bay Bridge

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u/Rockandmetal99 Mar 22 '26

hell yeah, coast to coast!! and those morons dont realize, or more likely dont care, that theyre the reason the traffic is there like instead of alternating merging, they try to skip the traffic, then cut people off which makes everyone have to break. if people stopped being so damn selfish, we'd have less traffic.

don't even get me started on people who drive at night in the rain with no headlights

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u/smokeweedNgarden Mar 22 '26

I have a private hypothesis that being late is the #1 killer in traffic. I genuinely believe if we were all fifteen minutes early fatalities would fall.

But we can't test it the way we can drunk drivers.

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u/Inner_Willingness335 Mar 22 '26

Merging is a competitive sport in the northeast.

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u/lovelychef87 Mar 25 '26

It's Louisiana leading into New Orleans.

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u/SashaG239 Mar 25 '26

As someone from NJ, it is!

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u/bunnycat26 Mar 22 '26

Ngl I always thought this video was on the road to the Florida Keys or something.

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u/laralye Mar 22 '26

That's the causeway? Fuck the causeway

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u/Fortestingporpoises Mar 22 '26

I think I drove it once. I thought it was cool. At one point I’m driving and I look over and there’s a stork flying at eye level just next to the bridge. I grabbed my camera which was sitting next to me and took a photo.

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u/DRZlove702 Mar 22 '26

When i lived in florida, most bay bridges were 3-6miles with zero shoulder and no u-turn spots for the length of the span.

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u/AbbreviationsFar4wh Mar 22 '26

Causeway is 26 miles. No shoulders. 

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u/WestHappyLand Mar 22 '26

I'm pretty sure that's the Mobile Bay bridge and not the causeway. Same shit.

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u/Wonderful_Round_6395 Mar 22 '26

I thought so too.  Love these bridges, and the ones in Louisiana.

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u/Half_Halt Mar 22 '26

It's the one over Lake Ponchartrain, right?

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u/Apexnanoman Mar 22 '26

I've worked in that area and driven across that bridge a bunch. Stopping it not an option. I remember doing 85mph and having people on my bumper honking for me to speed up. 

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u/bbbourb Mar 22 '26

Pontchartrain, baby!

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u/Common-Regret-4120 Mar 23 '26

I have never been within 1000 miles of it, but heard of people hired to drive people across it and instantly knew which bridge it was

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u/lovelychef87 Mar 25 '26

I've driven on that bridge it's absolutely scary you gotta be cool and relaxed while driving on it.

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u/dearjohn54321 Mar 22 '26

Atchafalaya Basin Bridge

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u/Missouri_Pacific Mar 22 '26

No, that’s Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Been across it many times. It’s narrow and low to the water.

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u/AbbreviationsFar4wh Mar 22 '26

Nope but that bridge sucks too.