Talk:Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

message: "Isn't this bridge also used in.. I hate to mention it... True Lies with Arnie?"
...no, it is not. I don't know what bridge they've used in that movie, but it is definitely not the Causeway Bridge. I live in the Mandeville area and I drive across this bridge both ways on an average of seven times a month. I can tell you for sure that it isn't the Causeway (as we refer to it here), by means of the side rails that were showed in True Lies. The northbound bridge (coming up from Metairie to Mandeville) has a different type of railing (see pictures for a better description), whereas the southbound bridge (coming down from Mandeville to Metairie) has a cement-type wall of sorts on it.
::They used the abandoned part of the Overseas Highway that links the Florida Keys. Alphachimera (talk) 15:43, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop Culture 

message: I cannot find my World Almanac at the moment, but I'm really uncomfortable with the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway's "longest bridge" designation. The longest bridge is in Louisiana, but it's not obvious on any map. It's the last several miles of I-55 near the junction with I-10, which is itself a several miles long bridge at the junction with I-55. With the continuation of I-310, it's quite a distance -- longer than the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway and all one continuous bridge. I think this needs to be addressed and a new article written for that bridge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goeverywhere (talk • contribs) 08:43, 4 September 2006
:I have added a footnote from the Guinness World Records Aaron charles 18:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This bridge should be number one — but it's officially a causeway, not a bridge. - Gtxm78 (talk) 19:26, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Anyhow, here is the article on that bridged stretch of I-55  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchac_Swamp_Bridge  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C7:8480:392:85BA:54E:1CC7:8161 (talk) 18:39, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest Bridge? 

message: Is there any reason that the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is mentioned?  Is there some specific link with that?  If not I think it should be removed. violet/riga (t) 00:24, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Now the opening paragraph mentions Bang Na and Weinan Weihe... If there's no objection, I want to remove them and leave only the reference to the recently-completed Jiangzhou Bay Bridge (Qingdao Haiwan). There's no need to mention the third-place and sixth-place bridges, at least not with some serious contextualization. Alphachimera (talk) 15:42, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Google's cached copy deleted (www.thecauseway.com isn't down anymore)129.217.129.133 12:17, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chesapeake Bay Bridge 

message: This article is in need of images that actually show the length of the bridge. --Jack Zhang 01:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, it's a quite interesting bridge because it is one of, if not, the longest across water. It would be great if someone could add more images to the article. 90.184.5.10 (talk) 14:22, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: More images

message: Has anyone noticed that the Guiness Book of World Records Link is no longer valid?  Searching the site, the record does not seem to be posted there any longer.
:Unfortunately as the website mentions only a small percentage of records appear on the site Nil Einne 13:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Link 

message: Well, this should be fairly self-evident...what's the speed limit at night, and can you find a current source? =David(talk)(contribs) 04:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not seeing the contradiction.  --MPD T / C 06:16, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a contra.  Also changing facts per here. --MPD T / C 06:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: What's with the orders of magnitude link at the bottom of the page.  There is no reference to this term in the rest of the article, and it doesn't really seem to apply that well anyway.  
Is there any reason to keep it?  Jf00830 (talk) 19:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I say you take it off --Uvadaniel (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orders of Magnitude? 

message: The Causeway article says: "A causeway is a road or railway route across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment." The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway doesn't appear to fit that description. I.e. it's technically a viaduct rather than a causeway. If this is correct it should probably be mentioned in a footnote. --101.109.234.193 (talk) 19:59, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point. It is a viaduct, not a causeway. Wonder how that name arose, perhaps in an earlier time when the naming scheme wasn't so precise. Or PR purposes since causeway sounds better than "duct". Would be interesting to find out. -- GreenC 21:03, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm actually removing the line about it being a viaduct from the article on the grounds that the viaduct article that is linked clearly states that a viaduct is a columned bridge "primarily over land", which this clearly is not.  199.190.61.128 (talk) 04:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: See Viaduct#Over_water. However I think we need a source that calls it a viaduct. -- GreenC 13:20, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the Causeway actually a causeway, technically? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The header image is severe;y outdated and the southern end of the Causeway doesn't look like it anymore. Should it be replaced? I can probably go out and take a few pics of the Causeway from the Mandeville Lakefront, but I think it would be better to use the sattelite image of Lake Ponchartrain instead to show its size. JungleEntity (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing the header image?