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This eliminated the need for a planned $2.5 million, 16-lane toll booth that would have been built on sensitive marshlands at the south end of the bridge. [4] The cost of construction of the bridge is estimated at $71 million. The Bayside Bridge connects to nearby Interstate 275 via the Gateway Expressway that opened in May 2024.
State Road 293 (SR 293) is a 15.4 mile (24.8 km) major thoroughfare, extending from U.S. Route 98 in Destin, north across the Mid-Bay Bridge, a toll bridge, around Niceville to State Road 85. Initially ending at Florida State Road 20 west of where they intersect today, SR 293 has served as a very important bypass to the Niceville community, and ...
The Mid-Bay Bridge is a 141-span, 3.6-mile (5.8 km), two-lane toll bridge in Okaloosa County in the Florida Panhandle. It connects U.S. Highway 98 in Destin to State Road 20 in Niceville . The bridge generally runs north-south; the approaches to the bridge carry the State Road 293 designation while the bridge itself carries the TOLL 293 shield.
The Pinellas Bayway system employs toll by plate and electronic toll collection. The cash booths were terminated on September 22,2023. Casual users of the Bayway system may use their SunPass or other Florida-compatible electronic toll collection transponders such as LeeWay, E-PASS, and E-ZPass, Pike Pass, K Tag and certain Texas passes (not all are excepted).
Bridge A is 70 feet (21 m) tall and stands as the tallest bridge in Lee County. The bridge previously holding this record was the nearby Matanzas Pass Bridge, which is 65 feet (20 m) tall. The original Bridge A was a 26-foot (7.9 m) high drawbridge. The current Bridge A finally opened for traffic on June 28, 2007, along with the current toll plaza.
The original bridge, which had been in service since June 13, 1931, [3] was tolled and was signed as TOLL US 98 until the bridge bonds were paid off. The decommissioned original bridge served as two 1.5-mile-long fishing piers until they were largely destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. By 2007, the remainder of the northernmost fishing pier ...
Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority SR 281: Pensacola Bay: 18,425.0 5,615.9 $2.75 Cash or SunPass: Hammock Dunes Bridge Dunes Community Development District Hammock Dunes Parkway Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway: 2,598.2 791.9 $3.00 or $.50 with pass Cash only/Private pass available (Toll eastbound only) Mid-Bay Bridge: Mid-Bay Bridge Authority SR 293
The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (HEFT), designated as unsigned State Road 821 (SR 821), is the southern extension of Florida's Turnpike, a controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of Florida maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE). Spanning approximately 48 miles (77 km) along a north–south axis, it supplements ...