Recreating REAL BRIDGES in Poly Bridge 3!

Poly Bridge 3 (pb3) is finally here, and with 10 years of professional civil engineering experience, who better than to take you though the brand new poly bridge game!? This time I recreate three real American bridges in Poly Bridge 3!

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[Shoe_Horn]

More irl bridge episodes, please. You underestimate your capacity for Pseudo-educational material, RCE. Legit, you fully nerding out about your favorite bridges is some of the most genuine content you've put out there.

[YouTube]

matt's content never disappoints 🔥

[Nightenstaff]

Woo! New River Gorge bridge is an absolute feat of engineering. Massive bridge spanning a massive gap. There's an annual event called Bridge Day where they allow people to base jump from the bridge to the river below. There are also walking tours under the bridge so you can really get a feel for not only the amazing engineering and scale, but an incredible view of the surrounding areas.

[pg]

Nice !
Considering the golden gate :
Given the size of the spans, I'd say that the side spans top "cable" (that you made out of steel) should be a lot less curved. They actually have a way greater role in tension to support the central span than to support the side spans.
You can see that when pressing play, it's actually not the weight that's limiting in the first place but the fact that the towers bend inwards due to poor bridge balance ^^
Considering the great gorge : making the arch rely on only one anchor point per side would probably work even better :p

[ndLtHavoc]

I'd love to see some fictional bridges to sort of test the work of the artists who designed them.

[RckBulder]

An interesting bridge to try and recreate: The Forth Railway bridge in Scotland, UK

[PlaneShaper]

I'm really impressed that you legitimately got to the point where basically the only problem with your Golden Gate bridge was the roads popping from compression as the bridge settled.

Really happy to see one of these old-form videos where you're doing real bridge recreations!

[zacksheets]

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay is a great bridge!! :) One thing to know is that it is actually really long and pretty steep in real life. It's also pretty tall as it has to be tall enough for large ships to go underneath (theres multiple ports in the bay). A drawbridge wouldnt have worked because this road is a very busy highway. This bridge is actually the second version, the first was hit by a cruise ship that was probably too tall at high tide. Loving the appreciation for engineering in my hometown :)))

[MuNYMiKAL]

Amazing! My wife and I drove over the New River Gorge bridge earlier this year and it is both awesome and terrifying. I learned that I like being able to see the bridge structure as I'm driving over it 😅
Love ya Matt, great video!

[bladactania]

Nice to see the New River Gorge Bridge from my home state of West Virginia again! It was, for a time, the longest arch bridge in the world! You did a good job of recreating it!

[Newbinator]

Damn I didn't know Cable-stayed bridges and Suspension bridges were different!

Both interesting, entertaining, and educational! Would love to see more videos like this!

[FPVenius]

I'd love you see you do the Mackinac Bridge. 6 miles long, IIRC. It takes multiple years to repaint it, so when they're done painting, they start over immediately.

[AdriaOliSal]

That was cool! I think one interesting bridge to recreate is the Dom Luis I bridge in Porto, Portugal. It's a double decker iron bridge designed by Théophile Seyrig from Eiffel & Co (Before the Eiffel tower)

[GhostOfLorelei]

Some of the bridges going over gorges in the US are just insane. Two of my favorites from my childhood are the Glen Canyon Dam Bridge (Northern Arizona, at the root of the Grand Canyon) and Perrine Memorial Bridge (Snake River, Idaho, near Twin Falls). Honest to god, every time I see them I'm impressed by how graceful yet simple they are... and every time I go over them I'm surprised it doesn't just collapse 😅. It'd be a long way down.

[kevinh]

NRG Bridge is a very excellent new American bridge. My favorite unsung bridge would be the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (not the tunnel bridge). A massive and multi-faceted construction with over 4 miles of total length, although only has a longest continuous span of 1600ft (488m). It's a wild experience driving over, and they have services for people who are too scared to drive themselves.

[renskedunnewold]

That last bridge was a beauty, both the original and your recreation. I'd like to see the Erasmus bridge. It's the most famous Dutch bridge, and also from my home town 😁

[Ashwoo]

As someone who wanted to be an engineer but cannot do math, these videos are really comforting to watch! Please do more of these kinds of pseudo-eductional videos, you're fantastic at them :D

[roastghost]

There's two old really cool bridges in Outlook, Saskatchewan that could be fun to recreate. One is a HUGE railway bridge that spanned a full kilometer 150 feet over the Saskatchewan river. It's closed down now, but standing on it you can look down and see BOB (Big Orange Bridge) a little way down the river with a very sexy 5-span Parker through truss made from bright orange steel.

[Ffourteen]

You have to do the St Lois Eads Bridge across the Mississippi. It might not be the prettiest bridge, but we're not architects. It is so important historically for how long the spans were, how they built the foundations in the river, and using so much steel for the first time.

[emptysora_]

The sheer happiness I felt when you said the cable-stayed was the Sunshine Skyway, lol. I live in Pinellas, near the bridge, and can appreciate it (and not be scared on it) now thanks to you, lol. There’s a lot of fear for things people don’t understand, and your bridge enthusiasm and knowledge has no doubt helped many—including myself—to overcome fears like the fear of bridges. So thanks.