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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).
Oct 10, 2024 · Sunshine Skyway Bridge, cable-stayed concrete bridge over the southern end of Tampa Bay in western Florida that connects St. Petersburg in Pinellas county with Terra Ceia (near Bradenton) in Manatee county. Designed by Eugene C. Figg, Jr., and Jean Muller, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was the longest cable-stayed concrete bridge in the world when ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is a cable-stayed concrete bridge that extends over four miles across the mouth of the Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Bradenton, Florida. In fact, the...
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is one of the largest clear-span, stage-constructed concrete bridges in North America. The bridge consists of trestle, approach spans, low-level approach spans, high-level approach spans, and 366 m of cable-stayed main span.
2 days ago · Want to know if the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is open or closed? You've come to the right place! We pull and report the Skyway Bridge status every 5 minutes.
Oct 9, 2024 · News / Oct 9, 2024 / 12:35 PM EDT. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge has closed to all traffic as Hurricane Milton makes a dangerous approach to Tampa Bay, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
May 6, 2020 · See historic photos from the Sunshine Skyway bridge disaster. On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck the bridge, killing 35 people in one of the worst disasters in Tampa Bay history. Richard ...
May 9, 2020 · A car precariously balanced, just 14 inches short of plummeting 140 feet into Tampa Bay, Florida, after the freighter 'Summit Venture' rammed into the Sunshine Skyway Bridge during a...
May 19, 1999 · The Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, often referred to as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge or simply the Skyway, is a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Lower Tampa Bay connecting St. Petersburg, Florida to Terra Ceia. The current Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987 and is the second bridge of that name on the site.
May 8, 2020 · Saturday marks 40 years since the 19,734-ton Summit Venture freighter slammed into the old Skyway bridge. Six cars, a truck and a Greyhound bus plummeted 150 feet into the choppy waters of...
