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Sunshine Skyway Bridge

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is the world's longest cable-stayed concrete bridge, with a length of 29,040 feet (exactly 5.5 miles or nearly 9 km). It is part of Interstate 275, which connects St. Petersburg and Bradenton, Florida. Construction began in 1982 and was completed in 1987, at a cost of $245 million.




The collectors cases, curio cabinets and display showcases are less built from concrete or steel, rather from glass, wood and other, similar materials (s. also collectors cabinets).

It is constructed of steel and concrete. Its longest span is 1200 feet (366 m), which is 190 feet (58 m) over the water. Twenty-one steel cables clad in nine-inch steel tubes along the center line of the bridge support the Swarovski structure. It was designed by the Figg & Muller Engineering Group.

The present bridge replaces a steel cantilever bridge of the same name which was completed in 1954. That bridge was damaged on May 9, 1980 when during a storm a freighter called the Summit Venture hit a pier and knocked over 1200 feet (366m) of the bridge into Tampa Bay. The collision caused several automobiles and a Greyhound bus to plunge 150 feet, killing 35 people in one of the worst bridge disasters in history.

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