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>>>>>>Like Nick I've driven over it a few times - but it's not very interesting to drive across. From the road itself you get very little sense of the vertical drop beneath the wheels.
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>>>>>>I also cycled down the Tam a couple of times - once when it was being built and once since. From the floor of the valley it looks much more impressive - oddly enough more so during construction when huge sections were just jutting out into space like the highest diving board in the world.
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>>>>>Its a shame these bridges don't have a footpath/cycle path any more. I remember walking over the old severn bridge just after it was built and it was very interesting.
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>>>>Always meant to do that - never had time.
>>>>Does the SSC have a cycle path? I guess not - I've driven over it dozens of times and not noticed one....
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>>>>On the Millau bridge:
>>>>I remember that before it was built driving thru Millau was a really bottle neck - long queues of heavy trucks going south. The bridge seems to have swallowed this traffic easily - I've never seen it looking even remotely busy. Millau itself however doesn't appear to have benefited from this - it is as jammed as ever - presumably with tourists who have come to see the bridge!
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>>>I don't think the SSC has one.
>>>Going back even further I remember getting the Aust ferry which was nice.
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>>Only remember using that once. Half-a-crown for a car IIRC (what's that ? 12.5p?)
>>At least they've got the tolls right now - charge people to come to Wales, not to leave :-}
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>IIRC the Golden Gate Bridge is the same way.

Well they both charge to go north and the north side is better (but only marginally so in the case of Marin county) gd&r
Hang on, may be wrong about the Golden Gate direction - can't really remember.....