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I'm actually surprised that this is a whole genre of bridges. I thought it was a specific reference to my local "budget overrun" bridge type.

I think it's every city's right of passage to build This Type of Bridge as a mistake

I've seen a lot of repurposed elevators lately.

You forgot “starship” 🖖

The ''Fun'' bridge is just every Sonic level

Mildly sad you failed to include: www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...

The "repurposed elevator", can we use a paternoster elevator for this purpose?

Do funiculars next

Pretty sure there's a Thomas toy that does that

Transporter bridge - V cool

Float bridge

The L'Engle panel is brilliant, but I do not know enough about wormholes to know if they should be described as bringing two places together, I'm not sure that's the same as skipping the intervening distance.

Here you go... www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

Forgot escalator.

Why no Transporter Bridge?

Very nice collection 👍 youtu.be/GLvohMXgcBo

Captain's?

Halfhearted looks like halfpipe

You missed swing bridge and all the Jeffs.

i can make this entire comic in poly bridge

L'engle bridge, also known as "What to do when he says he'll cut the rope if you step on it"

I'm missing the vertical lift bridge. #notmadbutdisappointed

Now I wanna build all this in minecraft

wish Real Civil Engineer was on BloopSky so we could tag him in this

L'Engle just made my childhood heart explode in a million pieces of joy. Well done.

You forgot the kind with Picard saying “Engage” on it.

Poly bridge

Floating bridge erasure

It's a reference to a classic of children's literature that she wrote, and the "Tesseract" system of travel in it.

The front fell off

day 34 of factoring xkcd 3097 is 19*163

Forgot “repurposed rail car” which is popular in rural California.

L'Engle 🤍 A+

Draw bridge ought to have had a castle and moat.

I was expecting Einstein-Rosen to be an option.

Recommended by 9 out of 10 space science fiction enthusiasts.

looks like a plank between two arch sections?

Is that just Arch with no root access?

L'Engle!

Cable-stayed bridges >>>

Speaking of bridges, pet, by the way, There *is* such a thing as a tesseract.

The alt text to this shows pretty well why Randall was so reluctant to add it. Kind of a lot of stuff to describe in some of these.

I appreciate that you called it a L’Engle and not a tesseract.

when/where was this?

Oh I thought it was this one in San Francisco

Gotcha, yeah that checks out.

Plus, the Erasmus Bridge wasn't a Budget Overrun. On the contrary, it was budgeted at €166 (1991) and costed €165 (1996).

Was just about to post the same thing.

It doesn’t make sense as a bridge but fun designs save a lot of space on highway interchanges

Needs russian.

L'Engel is also known as the Papa Ape cross.

You forgot portals, going around it, and tunnels!

Madison County would like a word.

Well the "waterbed" is basically a floating bridge and these are legit in some places.

My personal favorite bridge type...

You forgot one more: popsicle stick

Okay the olympic stadium is a deeep cut

I have always loved bridges since I was a tiny little girl. Back then it was exciting and I begged my dad to stop on the bridge. He never did but once or twice he stopped on the side of the road after the bridge and let us explore!

The downside of the L'Engle is that eventually the stars will die, and you'll be recruited to fight an eternal war against evil by biblically accurate Cherubim.

Technically they are all Drawn Bridges

This reminds me of @mc.frontalot.com 's song "Floating Bridge," a bubbly hiphop song where he reviews bridge types. This comic makes me feel like you two could collab on an absolutely awesome part 2 to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x65h...

Cable bridge

Title text: "Pontoon bridges are just linear open-sided waterbeds." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3097#Transcript