- The George Washington Bridge (because the reason for its traffic jams can be summed up as "it's in New Jersey")
- The Bridge to Nowhere (because it suffered from a heady cocktail of pork, Palin, and populationlessness)
- Bridge to Nowhere, a 1986 New Zealand film (because it features a psychotic cattle rancher and teenagers in very short shorts)
- Seattle's 520 "ramps to nowhere" (because they are ugly and not green)
- Dike Bridge (because of the Chappaquiddick incident)
- The West Bay Bridge (because residents in the Hamptons are notoriously fun when it comes to taxes and infrastructure)
- The Tampan Zee Bridge (because it was probably built in the worst possible place)
- The Columbia River Crossing (because taxes)
- The Bridge (because it's about law enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border)
- The Atlantic Beach Bridge (because ''It should be renamed The Weather Bridge because everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it. It is a testament to the inertia of government.'')
- The Lake Marion Bridge (because of the racial tension simmering under opposition to it)
- The Hartford Bridge (because bribery, the 1800s)
- The Pulaski Skyway (because goats)
- The Jacques Cartier Bridge (because toll workers stole money and the Mounties needed to chase them down)
- The Great Belt Bridge (because of treaties and poorly executed Shakespeare quotes)
- Bridge Carson, the green Power Ranger
- The 1938 Bridge Lawsuit (because it involves a card detective and conspiracies.)
- All games of bridge (these people are good at stoking controversy: cancellations caused by wrong seating, politically motivated doctor's notes, a "series of subterfuges," illegal hand signals, Italian Bridge Watergate, etc.)
Daily Meme: Scandalous Bridges in History
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