Sunshine Skyway bridge, St. Petersburg

We took a slight detour on our return journey to travel over the Sunshine Skyway bridge, which is 4.1 miles long and soars 183 feet above Tampa Bay. The bridge was modeled after the Brotonne Bridge over the Seine River in France and is Florida's first suspension bridge. It is 4.1 miles long and the roadway soars 183 feet above Tampa Bay. Construction began in 1982 and the bridge was opened to traffic on April 20, 1987. It replaced an older bridge constructed in 1954 and partly destroyed in a collision in 1980. I took some pictures as we were going over it, but unfortunately our windshield (or windscreen for English readers!) was rather dirty with squashed bugs, so they didn't come out too well!
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