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13 November 2008

PizzaQ! Been here? Done that?

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One of the Pope's ancient titles is Pontifex Maximus -- Greatest Bridgebuilder.

6 slices with garlic, shallots and shitaki mushrooms ...

What is its name? Where is it? (I need the "where" sorta within 10 miles -- you got to get me close enough so there'd be roadsigns for it.)

Extra Credit: What's the one-way toll for a motorcycle and a passenger car?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now Vleeptron made me look at bridges a lot.
I am opting for this one, it is in your part of the world and I could almost bet you have passed that bridge at least once: cost for a bike and a ute would be 12.50
http://www.baybridge.com/index.php

Vleeptron Dude said...

Ah, beautiful! The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel! A few hours drive east from my old teenage stomping grounds, and I've had the thrill of going across/through it maybe twice.

I might have driven it more, it truly is even more beautiful than it looks like in a photo, but it has two little problems.

The weather is real nasty there -- storms coming in from the Atlantic -- and every few years a huge ship or barge smashes into a foundation of the bridge and renders the whole thing Kaput for the next few months.

Or the next few years.

BRIDGE/TUNNEL CLOSED
FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS

DETOUR TO
ALTERNATE ROUTE -->

The other trouble with the CBBT is that it connects a pretty busy zone of coastal Virginia cities with an area of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware which has Nothing -- seashore wilderness, summer beach resorts, the DelMarVa Peninsula, most famous for its herd of wild ponies on Assateague/Chincoteague Islands. But very few all-year-round people.

So after they built this engineering marvel, very few people used it, very few of the pricey tolls were collected.

So they soon stopped fixing the bridge accidents quickly, they couldn't afford it.

It was America's first "Bridge To Nowhere."

And now the Bad News:

Wrong Bridge. No Pizza.

Okay, so here's a HINT. The Vleeptron Ministry of Linear Unit Conversion (VMLUC) will re-write the PizzaQ:

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What is its name? Where is it? (I need the "where" sorta within 16.09344 kilometers -- you got to get me close enough so there'd be roadsigns for it.)

Vleeptron Dude said...

*** PUBLIC NOTICE ***

THIS PIZZAQ CONTINUED A FEW LATER POSTS, WITH IMAGE OF PRETTY PONIES

PIZZA NOT WON YET

Unknown said...

Mary JENSEN says it's to be found in the land of her Viking ancestors:
THE ORESUND BRIDGE or ORESUNDSBROEN
with a forward slash throught the O.
This white wonder connects Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmo in Sweden.
moto: Euro 20,-- $ 26,--
auto: Euro 36,-- $ 46,--

ELSINORE RULES OKAY