Welcome to the Roadscapes Wednesday segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Roadscapes Wednesday will feature roads and infrastructure related topics. Geek Alabama Editor / Publisher Nathan Young is often called the “road geek” for a good reason, Nathan loves roads and loves talking about roads!

They called it a cheap, unfinished skeleton and expected it to fail. So how did the bridge everyone mocked become the busiest — and one of the most lucrative — crossings on Earth? The answer is hiding in plain sight.

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