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A Bright Day For Sunshine

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge in all her glory,

Happy Fallback Friday

 

The Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, known to locals as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge or more casually the Skyway, is a bridge spanning Tampa Bay, Florida, with a cable-stayed main span, and a total length of 21,877 feet

Completed in 1987, the Sunshine Skyway is the world's longest cable-stayed concrete bridge.

Location: St. Petersburg and Bradenton, Florida, USA

Completion Date: 1987

Cost: $244 million

Length: 29,040 feet

Type: Cable-Stayed

Purpose: Roadway

Materials: Steel, concrete

Longest Single Span: 1,200 feet

www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/sunshine_sk...

 

 

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