{"id":99748,"date":"2026-08-15T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/kite-key-media-americas-most-terrifying-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:42:20","slug":"kite-key-media-americas-most-terrifying-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/kite-key-media-americas-most-terrifying-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite &amp; Key Media: America&#8217;s Most Terrifying Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> KITE &#038; KEY MEDIA: America is extremely good at building enormous structures. We&#8217;re also pretty good at designing them to give you a panic attack.   Maryland&#8217;s Chesapeake Bay Bridge stands 186 feet above the water and runs nearly 4 and a half miles &#8211; far enough that, from the middle, it&#8217;s hard to see land. Anxiety is so common that there&#8217;s a service that will drive your car across for you. Most customers move to the passenger seat. One asked for the trunk.   In St. Louis, the tram to the top of the Gateway Arch uses cars five feet in diameter with low ceilings &#8211; tight enough that riders compare them to a submarine. It clicks the whole way up and was designed by a college dropout on two weeks&#8217; notice.    At the Grand Canyon, the Skywalk pushes a 10-foot-wide glass bridge 70 feet past the rim, 4,000 feet above the Colorado River. It&#8217;s built to survive an 8.0 earthquake and hold 800 adults. Visitors cling to the rails anyway &#8211; and some end up crawling on their hands and knees.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/14\/kite__key_media_americas_most_terrifying_infrastructure.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KITE &#038; KEY MEDIA: America is extremely good at building enormous structures. We&#8217;re also pretty good at designing them to give you a panic attack. Maryland&#8217;s Chesapeake Bay Bridge stands 186 feet above the water and runs nearly 4 and a half miles &#8211; far enough that, from the middle, it&#8217;s hard to see land. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1844,15925,22578,230,90,4826],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}