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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I have had this happen traveling over the Susquehanna River in PA to visit family.   I've been driving the same route for decades and never had an issue.  It's a wide bridge, two lanes each way and huge shoulders.    A couple of years ago, I had a feeling that I was going to be pulled over the side of the bridge as I was driving across -- not due to wind or anything-- just a weird internal feeling.   It was very unsettling.  On the return trip, I put on a song and sang it the entire way over.  I have to say that the next few trips, I took a different route that involved shorter/different bridges.  No issue there or with Potomac River ones.  Last few pre-covid trips were fine.  No explanation.[/quote]

Same thing happened to me on this bridge and I also took the alternate root several times. I had to force myself to get back on the road eventually so it didn’t become a problem. Listening to music and chewing gum or something crunchy helped. [/quote]

Oddly enough, a friend described similar, sudden onset bridge anxiety going over the Susquehanna, but on 95 - the Tydings bridge. He'd been going over it for YEARS without issue but was in his wife's higher vehicle (she had an SUV, he'd always driven a sedan). All of the sudden he saw more of the "void" then ever before and nearly had a panic attack. I think it still freaks him out even back in his own car. [/quote]

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