Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 11, 2011

2 billion vehicles? I very much doubt that. 2 billion crossings, certainly but many fewer vehicles some of which cross twice daily!

So, your contention is that it’s only a vehicle the first time it crosses? They didn’t qualify it by saying “different” vehicles.

2 billion four hundred seventy two thousand nine hundred twenty two2 billion four hundred seventy two thousand nine hundred twenty three2 billion four hundred seventy two thousand nine hundred twenty ….uh…… damn! I lost count……oh, well, one, two, three, four……….

I agree with Gordon; the sentence could have been phrased differently. Is it trying to say that the bridge has been crossed 2 billion times, or that 2 billion unique vehicles have crossed it (which would imply far more than 2 billion crossings).

I think the Golden Gate panel is phrased perfectly well. It almost seems as though some people are TRYING to find something to complain about. How tedious.

That’s approximately 52 vehicles per minute — allowing 365 days of closures from 1937 to 2011 — with 4 lanes that’s 13 vehicles per lane per minute.

Are they counting suicides who jumped from that bridge? No..wait…They didn’t make it all the way across….Never mind.

semantics……2 billion vehicles crossed vs 2 billion crossings that’s like comparing mcdonald’s ‘billions served’ to the actual amount of meat in pounds it has served……364….no wait, no it’s not

….my drunk pet fox believes it is two billion crossings….

I saw a NOVA episode about how dogs got domesticated and that talked a bit about the Russian fox breeding program.