The GW

If you live in northeastern New Jersey and you have need to go into Manhattan, this bridge is how you'll cross the Hudson River. The George Washington Bridge, or, "The GW", as it's called in these parts, is near the sites of Fort Washington, in New York, and Fort Lee, in New Jersey, former fortified positions used by General Washington and his troops as they attempted to deter the occupation of New York City in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

As of 2013, the GW is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge with approximately 102 million vehicles crossing it every year. The toll to cross the bridge is now a whopping $13.

Here's a passage that beautifully describes this vital structure of steel, concrete, and cable:

"The George Washington Bridge over the Hudson is the most beautiful bridge in the world. Made of cables and steel beams, it gleams in the sky like a reversed arch. It is blessed. It is the only seat of grace in the disordered city. It is painted an aluminum color and, between water and sky, you see nothing but the bent cord supported by two steel towers.

When your car moves up the ramp the two towers rise so high that it brings you happiness; their structure is so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh. The car reaches an unexpectedly wide apron; the second tower is very far away; innumerable vertical cables, gleaming against the sky, are suspended from the magisterial curve which swings down and then up. The rose-colored towers of New York appear, a vision whose harshness is mitigated by distance."

(When the Cathedrals were White, by Le Corbusier)