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The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officially referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge. It spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County (Terra Ceia, Florida). The current Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987 and is the second ...
The clearance below required under bridges for the largest ships—container ships, ocean liners and cruise ships—is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, carrying I-275/US 19 across Tampa Bay. The road begins at an interchange with US 41 in Manatee County and remains independent until the interchange with I-275 at exit 5, where it overlaps I-275 across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the terminus of which is at the intersection of I-275 and SR 682 at exit 17.
Drivers going over the Sunshine Skyway bridge are now paying a little more. Beginning July 1, tolls for using the bridge between Pinellas and Manatee counties increased from $1.50 to $1.75 for ...
Both directions of the Howard Frankland Bridge reopened Wednesday afternoon after it was closed earlier that morning due to storm surge flooding. The Sunshine Skyway was closed to all traffic in ...
The Seven Mile Bridge is the longest bridge in Florida. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge , as seen at sunrise from Fort DeSoto Park , is amongst the most recognizable bridges in the United States. The Gandy Bridge was the first fixed crossing of Tampa Bay , with the original span opening in 1924.
John Pistorino, a structural engineer in Florida, said dolphins are in use to protect the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa, Florida, which was reopened in 1987, seven years after it was hit by a ...
Sunshine Skyway Bridge; T. Treasure Island Causeway; Media in category "Bridges over Tampa Bay" This category contains only the following file ...