How high is a "High Rise" bridge?

You're overthinking this

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Are there negative connotations associated with the term?

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Well the one in Nola regularly has shootings on it, so in a way, I guess there are.

I don’t know. But that water will still be cold. Deep, too.

Requisite “your Mom enjoys riding on my high rise” inserted here.

This one is high rise enough for me. From the side, far away, it doesn't look that bad but when you're driving up to it, it looks like it goes straight up into the air. And I hate heights anyway.

I was scared shitless the first time I ever rode over it in a car with my dad driving.

Then I had to ride over that sumbitch back in the 70s in the back of my uncle's pickup truck, before that other bridge was there and it was two-way traffic. My cousins had done it lots of times and thought it was great fun. They said later that there was the sound of "a little girl screaming." I don't remember it that way but I didn't really enjoy it. They have never let me forget it.

167 feet.

If the highest occupied floor is 75' above street level, then by code it's a high rise.

That's based on a fire department being able to combat a fire from below.

ETA: I missed the bridge part. My bad. Carry on. Probably has to do with cargo ship clearance.

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If the highest occupied floor is 75' above street level, then by code it's a high rise.

That's based on a fire department being able to combat a fire from below.

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a friend of mine used to be the CEO of AMEX, when he got the job they told him to pick any place in the building he wanted for an office as long as it wasn't above the 8th floor, he asked why was that? because that was the tallest ladder the NYFD had, at least at the time

Is that the bridge in Port Arthur ? I dream of going over the peak and the bridge not having anything on the other side.

That is one steep bridge. I think it holds some sort of record for the highest peak in the shortest span.