Sunshine Skyway Bridge

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Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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Coordinates27°37′30″N 82°39′30″W / 27.62500°N 82.65833°W / 27.62500; -82.65833
Carries4 lanes of I-275 / US 19
CrossesTampa Bay
LocaleSouth of St. Petersburg and north of Terra Ceia, Florida
Official nameBob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Other name(s)The Skyway
Named forBob Graham
Maintained byFlorida Department of Transportation
ID number150189
Characteristics
DesignCable-stayed
Total length4.14 miles (6.7 km)
Width94 feet (29 m)
Height430 feet (131 m)[1]
Longest span1,200 feet (366 m)
Clearance below180.5 feet (55 m)[2]
No. of lanes4
History
Engineering design byFigg & Muller Engineering Group
Constructed byAmerican Bridge Company
Construction startJune 1982[3][4]
Construction cost$244 million (equivalent to $558 million in 2019 dollars)
OpenedApril 20, 1987; 34 years ago (1987-04-20)
ReplacesSunshine Skyway Bridge
Statistics
Daily traffic63,607 (2020)[5]
Toll$1.50 for passenger cars or $1.07 with SunPass
Location
Sunshine Skyway Bridge (former)
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Coordinates27°37′30″N 82°39′30″W / 27.625°N 82.65833°W / 27.625; -82.65833
Carries4 lanes of US 19 (as two separate 2-lane bridges for each direction)
Characteristics
DesignCantilever bridge
MaterialSteel
Trough constructionSteel
Pier constructionReinforced concrete
History
Construction start
  • 1950 (original bridge, later converted to northbound only traffic)
  • 1967 (southbound span)
Construction end
  • 1954 (northbound span)
  • 1971 (southbound span)
OpenedSeptember 6, 1954; 67 years ago (1954-09-06) (original bridge)
InauguratedSeptember 6, 1954 (1954-09-06)
CollapsedMay 9, 1980; 41 years ago (1980-05-09)
ReplacesBee Line Ferry
Replaced bySunshine Skyway Bridge

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. It was designed by the Figg & Muller Engineering Group and built by the American Bridge Company and is considered a symbol of Florida.[6]

The four-lane bridge carries Interstate 275 and U.S. Route 19, passing through Pinellas County, Hillsborough County, and Manatee County. It is a toll road, with a $1.50 toll assessed on two-axle vehicles traveling in either direction and collected via cash or the state's SunPass system.[7]

The original bridge opened in 1954 and was the site of two major maritime disasters within a few months in 1980. In January 1980, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with the tanker Capricorn near the bridge, resulting in the sinking of the cutter and the loss of 23 crew members. In May 1980, the freighter MV Summit Venture collided with a bridge support during a sudden squall, resulting in the structural collapse of the southbound span and the deaths of 35 people when vehicles plunged into Tampa Bay.[8] Within a few years, the damaged span was demolished, the surviving span was partially demolished and converted into a long fishing pier, and the current bridge was built.

History[edit]

Precursors, proposals and construction[edit]

During 1924 a realtor named J.G. "Jim" Foley and his partner Charles R. Carter would join with James E. Bussey who was an attorney to create the Bee Line Ferry Company. The service would start on March 7, 1927 and originally had two ferries: Fred D. Doty and the City of Wilmington which was renamed Pinellas. The ferry would cross from the end of what is currently Bay Vista Park in St. Petersburg and go to Piney Point on the other side of the bay.[9]

Sometime during 1927, a physiotherapist from St. Petersburg, Dr. Herman Simmonds would get congressional approval and a permit from the US War Department to build a bridge but it would be dashed with the Great Depression starting.[10]

The Florida State Legislature would give the Bee Line Ferry a franchise for 50 years to operate it. The ferry service would continue to expand with the Fred D. Doty being replaced by another ferry called the Manatee. A fourth vessel, the Sarasota would be bought and put to service in 1937. Ferries would leave once per 30 minutes between 7:30 AM and 9 PM during the winter. While in the summer they would leave every 45 minutes instead.[9] The ferry company would cease operating when the US federal government confiscated the boats as they needed them for the World War II war effort in 1942.[11]

At close to the same time when the proposal from Simmonds ended, another proposal originating from Louis E. Saupe would emerge. Saupe who was the head of the West Coast Bridge and Tunnel Co. would want a combination consisting of a causeway and a tunnel. The causeway portion would go from Maximo Point to Mullet Key while the tunnel portion would run for less than a 1/2 mile before transitioning to a causeway until reaching Terra Ceia. Pinellas County commissioners liked the idea and agreed to it. In 1939 they would push state officials to approve it and the state legislature would agree to back it. Since the bridge would cross into part of Hillsborough County, which was not included in the bill for the bridge it was declared unconstitutional.[12]

During 1944, the St. Petersburg Port Authority would buy the franchise from the company that operated the ferry. They would continue to operate the ferry until the opening of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.[10]

Bail, Horton and Associates along with Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hogan & Macdonald would get a contract from the port authority on December 20, 1944 to design the bridge. Both firms would release a report in November 1945 about the bridge.[11] Freeman Horton of Bail, Horton and Associates would propose that Snead Island be it's southern terminus and 10th Street in Palmetto be the thoroughfare.[13] Bail, Horton and Associates would be awarded the contract but as it was unable to get $10 million in revenue bonds, the state government would halt the project sometime during the late 1940s. The design competition would be reactivated again in the early 1950s with Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hogan & Macdonald getting the contract this time.[11]

On July 4, 1950 a day-long celebration would be held in St. Petersburg called "Spans Across the Bay". Also during this day a national contest would be held to give a new name to the bridge with 20,000 entries being submitted. The winner would be Virginia Seymore who was from Indian Rocks, Florida who submitted the name: Sunshine Skyway Bridge.[10]

Filling work would start in mid-October 1950 after construction bonds were obtained. Staging areas were put at both crossing sites. An entire concrete factory would be established near Piney Point while prefabricated concrete parts would be delivered via barge from a site in Tampa where they were made.[10]

Original bridge[edit]

The original two-lane bridge was built by the Virginia Bridge Company and opened to traffic on September 6, 1954.[14][15] Notable participants in opening ceremonies that day would be: US Senator and former Governor Spessard Holland, former Governor Charley E. Johns and Fuller Warren, James Melton and General James Van Fleet. Delegations from 10 Florida counties would participate that day as well.[16] A similar structure was built parallel and to the west of it in 1969 to make it a four-lane bridge and bring it to Interstate Highway standards. Opening of the newer span was delayed until 1971 for reinforcing of the south main pier, which had cracked due to insufficient supporting pile depth.[17] The second span was used for all southbound traffic, while the original span was converted to carry northbound traffic.

US 19 was extended from St. Petersburg to its current end north of Palmetto.[citation needed]

1980 collapse[edit]

The collapsed original bridge on May 9, 1980, after the Summit Venture collision
The current bridge (top) and the old bridges. The piers of the current bridge are protected by structural dolphins. The collapsed bridge is under demolition.

The southbound span (opened in 1971) of the original bridge was destroyed at 7:38 a.m. on May 9, 1980, when the freighter MV Summit Venture collided with a pier (support column) during a sudden squall, sending over 1,200 feet (370 m) of the bridge plummeting into Tampa Bay. The collision caused six cars, a truck, and a Greyhound bus to fall 150 feet (46 m) into the water, killing 35 people.[18][19] One man, Wesley MacIntire, survived, although, contrary to belief, his Ford Courier pickup truck did not land on the deck of the Summit Venture and roll into the water; rather, it flew into the hull on the port side, ricocheted off and sank.[20] He sued the company that owned the ship, and settled in 1984 for $175,000 ($436,000 today).[21] Several other drivers - including former Major League Baseball player Granny Hamner - were able to stop their vehicles before reaching the gap in the roadway.[22]

John Lerro, the harbor pilot who had been steering the ship, was later cleared of wrongdoing by both a state grand jury and a Coast Guard investigation. A microburst had suddenly hit the freighter with torrential rains and 70 mph (110 km/h) winds as it was in the middle of a turn in the shipping channel nearing the bridge, cutting visibility to near zero and temporarily rendering the ship's radar useless.[23][24][25] Lerro put the ship's engines into full reverse and ordered the emergency dropping of the anchor as soon as he realized that the freighter was out of the channel, but the bow still hit two support piers with enough force to cause a portion of the roadway to collapse.[26] The south main pier withstood the ship strike without significant damage, but a secondary pier to the south was not designed to withstand such an impact and failed catastrophically.[17]

Aftermath[edit]

After the Summit Venture disaster, the southbound span was used as a temporary fishing pier and the northbound span was converted back to carry one lane in either direction until the current bridge opened. Before the old bridge was demolished and hauled away in barges, MacIntire (the only survivor in the collapse) was the last person to drive over it. He was accompanied by his wife, and when they reached the top of the bridge, they dropped 35 white carnations into the water, one for each person who died in the disaster.[27] Both the main spans of both the intact northbound bridge and the damaged southbound bridge were demolished in 1993 and the approaches for both old spans were made into the Skyway Fishing Pier State Park. These approaches sit 1⁄2 mile (800 m) to the south and west of the current bridge. The approaches of the 1950s span were demolished in 2008.

Gov. Graham's idea for the design of the current bridge won out over other proposals, including a tunnel (deemed impractical due to Florida's high water table) and a simple reconstruction of the broken section of the old bridge that would not have improved shipping conditions. The new bridge's main span is 50% wider than the old bridge. The piers of the main span and the approaches for 1⁄4 mile (400 m) in either direction are surrounded by large concrete barriers, called "dolphins", that can protect the bridge piers from collisions by ships larger than the Summit Venture like tankers, container ships, and cruise ships.[28]

Demolition of former bridge[edit]

In 1990 FDOT awarded the winning bid to Hardaway Company to demolish all steel and concrete sections of the older Sunshine Skyway Bridge.[29] The scope of the project required that all underwater piles and piers, and surface roadway, girders, and beams be dismantled. Special care had to be taken in removing underwater bridge elements near the shipping channel. Additionally, the concrete material, deck sections, pilings and steel girders were to be collected in order to be placed offshore and along the remaining bridge approaches to become artificial reefs for the new planned state fishing park. The main bridge span had to be removed in one piece in order not to block the main shipping canal leading to the Port of Tampa.[30]

During the disassembly work of the bridges’ structural steel members, several difficult engineering challenges had to be resolved: the order of disassembly, a safe method for detonating charges on concrete and steel members in a publicly open and difficult to control area such as the Tampa Bay, and the development of a safe methodology for the removal in one piece of the bridge’s main span and concrete piers.[citation needed]

After extensive research, the engineering team developed a 4 × 1:16 ratio pulley system where each of the four corners of the span was connected to two 25-ton winches (bolted to the pavement of the deck). These winches controlled the descent of the main 360-foot (110 m), 608-ton span to a barge anchored 150 feet (46 m) below. As part of the project design, the engineering team developed a real-time, computerized, synchronized descent calculator and control program to help each of the two winch management teams ensure that all winches were synchronized at the same 30 feet (9.1 m) per minute descent rate. The operation was executed successfully in 2+1⁄2 hours despite adverse weather conditions.[31]

Issues[edit]

Suicides[edit]

At least 310 people have committed suicide by jumping from the bridge or its predecessors into the waters of Tampa Bay. An estimated 43 others have survived.[32] Many other missing persons are suspected of having jumped from the bridge but their deaths could not be confirmed as no bodies were recovered.

In response to the high number of suicide attempts from the bridge, the state of Florida installed six crisis hotline phones along the center span in 1999, and began 24-hour patrols. As of 2003, the call center at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay received 18 calls from potential jumpers, all of whom survived, according to a 2003 St. Petersburg Times report.[33]

In 2006, a feature film Loren Cass was released, which depicted a suicide jump off the Sunshine Skyway.[34] Two years later, a second filmmaker, Sean Michael Davis of Rhino Productions, was inspired by his haunting experience witnessing a woman jump off the bridge so quickly that no one could intervene, to create a not-for-profit film titled Skyway Down. His objectives: to deter other potential jumpers by " 'punch[ing] them in the face' with interviews with survivors and family members",[35] to give them "hope and to try to de-glorify the romanticism of the bridge",[36] in part by informing those who have "mulled a leap to know about the bloody, battered aftermath."[35]

In January 2020, FDOT announced they will install the Skyway Vertical Net, a vertical barrier in an effort to deter suicide attempts.[37] Construction for the project is expected to begin in fall 2020 and completed by early 2021. The vertical barrier will be placed on the outside walls of the bridge and extend vertically 8 feet (2.4 m) from the side barriers. It will span each side of the bridge for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km).[38]

As part of any Florida controlled-access highway, pedestrians and bicycles are prohibited.[39] Stopping on the bridge for any non-emergency, including sightseeing, is prohibited. Traffic on the bridge is monitored by the Florida Highway Patrol, and a stopped vehicle, bicyclist, or pedestrian will elicit a police dispatch.

Corrosion[edit]

A major problem with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is corrosion of the steel in the precast concrete segmental columns on the high level approaches. Because the segments are hollow, workers were able to enter the bridge superstructure in 2003 and 2004 to reinforce the corroded sections of the bridge, ensuring its future safety.[40] Another problem arose around 2005–06 when several news bureaus reported paint discolorations on the bridge's cables. These paint splotches and patches were a result of touch-ups that were performed sometime in 1998 but began to show through as a result of using newer, environmentally-safe paint. The change in the paint's composition caused it to fade faster than expected.

From 2006 to 2008, Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) hired a contractor to perform the first full repainting of the bridge since it opened in 1987. The work included repainting the bridge's 42 steel cables one consistent shade of yellow and rehabilitating the lighting system at the summit of the bridge.[41]

Low clearance[edit]

A 2014 FDOT study noted that the Skyway's low bridge clearance prevented larger vessels from using the Port Tampa Bay terminals, but made no recommendation about options as the air draft of most new cruise ships exceeds the bridge's height limit at 180 feet (55 m).[42]

Traffic[edit]

Usage and tourism[edit]

The former and current bridge have been featured in various forms of media. The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge is featured in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the opening credits to Superboy. The current bridge has provided the setting for several films such as Loren Cass and The Punisher. The bridge also served as plot devices to various novels such as Dennis Lehane's 1997 novel Sacred[43] and Ben Bova's 2005 novel Powersat.[44] The bridge is also the subject of the song "Skyway Avenue" by We the Kings.[45]

The United States Postal Service featured the bridge in 2012 on a Priority Mail postage stamp. Carl T. Hermann worked on the painting and the digital illustration was created by artist Dan Cosgrove.[46]

In 2005, an act of the Florida Legislature officially named the current bridge the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, after the former Governor of Florida and then U.S. Senator who presided over its design and most of its construction. According to sources[which?], he was inspired to suggest the current design by a visit to France, where he saw a similar cable-stayed bridge, the Brotonne Bridge. The original bridge was dedicated to state engineer William E. Dean, as noted on a plaque displayed at the rest area at the south end of the bridge.

In November 2017, work began on installing decorative lighting to the Skyway's columns, main spans, and sloped spans.[47] The $15.6 million lighting project provides a visual aesthetic while also enhancing safety and security by providing more light to the underside of the bridge from dusk to dawn. Over 1,800 LEDs were installed along 1.7 miles (2.7 km) of the bridge which cycles through animated routines. The lighting project was completed in October 2019 and funded by FDOT through collected toll fees.[48]

Skyway 10K[edit]

On January 11, 1987, the Skyway Bridge opened-up to 10,000 runners, joggers and walkers before the bridge was opened to motor vehicle traffic the following week. Runners participated in four races that ran simultaneously across the bridge, with two races going southbound and two races directed northbound.[49]

On March 4, 2018, in partnership with the Armed Forces Families Foundation, the Skyway Bridge was closed for the Inaugural Skyway 10K.[50] In contrast to the one-time race in 1987, the Skyway 10K has been held annually since 2018 with the exception of 2021 as it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and would be held virtually instead.[51]

Gallery[edit]

Old bridge demolition[edit]

  • Before demolition

  • Demolition of steel and concrete girders. Truncated pier visible was the one struck by Summit Venture

  • Main bridge span secure on barge being towed away

  • Blasting steel truss

  • Blasting concrete piers

Current bridge[edit]

  • The bridge at twilight

  • View of bridge from Fort De Soto Park's East Beach

  • Driving on the bridge, near the peak

  • View of bridge heading south

  • As seen from the water of Tampa Bay

  • View looking up while driving across Sunshine Skyway Bridge

  • MV Summit Venture Mayday Call of the collision incident

  • The bridge in 2019.

See also[edit]

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