Prince Edward Island had a century-old plan that was finally executed in the 1990s to build a bridge to connect to mainland Canada (1).
This is the same debate that happens each time there’s a fixed connection to an island until the damn thing opens and people grow to love it.
It’s a pain in the arse to have to wait for the ferry, to sync your travel plans to ferry times, only to have to change plans again when the ferries break down.
(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-isla...
Having lived the majority of my adult life in greater Puget Sound, the ferries are great for tourists and a pain for actual day-to-day travel.
It's not just that bridge, it seems it's almost any big new bridge that attracts all sorts of howling, even when it's painfully obvious it's needed.
Skye. Never used the bridge, used the ferry from Kyle of Localsh to Kyleakin and the one to Mallaig from Armadale. But what you say rings true. Romance went out the window, but for locals its a shitload easier to get on with life.