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The Port of Miami Tunnel (also State Road 887) is a 4,200-foot (1,300 m) [3] bored, undersea tunnel in Miami, Florida.It consists of two parallel tunnels (one in each direction) that travel beneath Biscayne Bay, connecting the MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island with PortMiami on Dodge Island.
The tunnel replaced the Federal Aid Highway Bridge, a drawbridge opened on August 26, 1926, and closed in 1958. Upon its completion in 1960, it was the only operating public tunnel in Florida (this changed with the completion of the Port of Miami Tunnel in 2014. Two private tunnels exist at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista ...
Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
The Seven Mile Bridge was at the heart of Florida’s eight-year, $200 million program to replace 37 of the 44 bridges that connect the Keys with the mainland. The new bridge was made to be nearly ...
Replacing the Seven Mile Bridge isn’t the only major Florida Keys road project on Monroe County’s and FDOT’s agenda, Livengood said. There are also plans to replace the Long Key Bridge, the ...
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.
Also a third tunnel, the ramp from the northbound John Philip Sousa Bridge to westbound Southeast Boulevard SE. Part of Southeast Freeway (Interstate 695). SE DC (four) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park road culverts under the Canal: # 1 (mile 1.3), near Canal Road NW and Foxhall Road NW, NW DC
The Florida Department of Transportation’s website, FL511.com, has live video streams of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and other area bridges to see Hurricane Helene.