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  1. 6 days ago · About. SkywayBridgeStatus.com is a project aimed at helping Tampa Bay commuters plan for unexpected closures of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. This web application actively collects real-time weather and traffic data from reputable sources. Our goal is to use this historical data to create a closure prediction model available to the public.

  2. Apr 11, 2024 · Parts of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg are scheduled to close Sunday morning for the annual Skyway 10K. Event organizers said the northbound lanes of the bridge will be closed Sunday, March, 6, from 3:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. Additionally, 4 th Avenue South near Tropicana Field will not be available for public access between MLK and ...

  3. Apr 8, 2024 · Officials have since been able to open the northbound lane for limited, twice-a-day escorts, weather permitting. Drabinski said those convoys, intended for residents and essential workers ...

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  5. Mar 26, 2024 · Bridge specifications changed in the 1990s to account for collisions from massive cargo vessels like the one that killed 35 people along the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida in 1980.

  6. Apr 3, 2024 · In 1980, tragedy struck when a storm caused a freighter to collide with the Skyway. The bridge's ensuing collapse left one car dangling over the side and others, including a Greyhound bus, plunging into the bay. Thirty-five people lost their lives, and the incident left visible scars with two fishing piers formed out of the old bridge's remains.

  7. 3 days ago · Former Sen. Bob Graham, along with some of his grandchildren and family, looks at the new sign for the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge during renaming ceremonies on Nov. 21, 2005, in St. Petersburg.

  8. Mar 29, 2024 · The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which opened in 1977 — three years before the Skyway disaster — collapsed earlier this week after it was struck by a nearly 1,000-foot freighter. It was nearly four times as heavy as the ship that hit the Skyway. But the Key Bridge was never retrofitted with structural protections to guard against ...

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