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Lanes of the Hathaway Bridge will be closed 8 a.m.-4 p.m. from Sept. 11-15, as well as Sept. 18-22, as crews work to install upgraded lighting.
The original St. Andrews Bay Bridge was built in 1929 and renamed for Franz Hathaway, chairman of Florida's State Road Department. [2] The second Hathaway bridge replaced Hathaway I was completed in 1959. [2] In 1997, the state of Florida issued more than $80 million for construction of the new Hathaway Bridge. [2]
The U.S. state of Florida, due to being a peninsula and its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, has many bridges of varying lengths. The longest bridge in the state is the Seven Mile Bridge located in the Florida Keys. This list includes overwater automobile bridges 2,640 feet (800 m) or longer.
U.S. Route 98 (US 98) is a major east-west thoroughfare through the U.S. state of Florida.Spanning 670.959 miles (1,079.804 km), it connects Pensacola and the Alabama/Florida state line to the west with Palm Beach and the Atlantic coast in the east.
The eastbound lanes of the Manatee Avenue Bridge are closed as emergency repairs are needed to fix a hole in the bridge, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
Bureaucracy usually mires construction projects in delays. Florida is trying to buck that norm.
As of June 1, 2009, the route between US 98 (Back Beach Road) at Panama City Beach and SR 20 at Ebro was being expanded to four lanes. A second bridge over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at West Bay has been completed and is now open making the four lane complete for about a 5-mile (8.0 km) stretch from US 98 northward to the intersection of SR 79 and SR 388 at West Bay.
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