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St. Petersburg Pier
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Coordinates: 27°46′24″N 82°37′19″W
Activities and sights offered at the pier included shopping, dining, nightlife, fishing, boat rentals, weekly festivals, and the Pier Aquarium.[4] The aquarium was located on the second floor. A branch of Ybor City's Columbia Restaurant was on the fourth floor and Cha Cha Coconuts Tropical Bar and Grill on the fifth floor. The first floor included a Concierge Center, specialty shops and galleries, Waterside Grill & Bar, and the Dockside Eatery food court with burgers, pizza, ice cream and Chinese. Local bands were featured in Courtyard by the Bay every Sunday afternoon.
In a straw-poll vote (5-3) after a two-hour workshop on August 18, 2010, the St. Petersburg City Council accepted Mayor Bill Foster's recommendation to demolish the current Pier.[5] A binding vote, 7–1, was taken at an August 26 meeting.[6] On January 20, 2012, the St. Petersburg Pier Competition Jury unanimously selected Michael Maltzan Architecture's "The Lens" as the design for the new pier,[7] providing computer-generated illustrations of the proposed project on flickr.[8]
The 1973 Pier is scheduled to close May 31, 2013. In September 2012, the city applied to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for a permit to demolish the pier. Approval will take 6 to 12 months.[9]
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History
The Pier's origins date to 1889, when the Orange Belt Railway constructed the Railroad Pier on Tampa Bay as a railway-accessible sightseeing and recreational resort for locals and tourists, three years prior to St. Petersburg’s incorporation as a city in 1892. The Railroad Pier's immediate success led to its replacement in 1906 with the Electric Pier, which extended 3,000 feet into the bay.The Electric Pier, in turn, was replaced in 1914 by the Municipal Pier, which was so heavily damaged by the Hurricane of 1921 that the city of St. Petersburg appropriated a $1 million bond for a new structure. This was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day in 1926 as the Million Dollar Pier, a Mediterranean-style casino that included an observation deck, an open-air ballroom, and a spacious interior atrium for card games and community events. The building's entrance portico was later enclosed as WSUN-TV’s studios, from which "Captain Mac" broadcast his children’s show in the 1950s.[10]
By 1967 the Million Dollar Pier was demolished. The site was vacant for many years until the current structure was built in 1973. The inverted pyrmaid-shaped building was designed by William B. Harvard Sr., founder of Harvard Jolly architectural firm in St. Petersburg, with a tubular steel framework to create large windows for panoramic views of Tampa Bay and a a larger top floor and observation deck.[11]
On March 20, 1976, the city dedicated a laser sculpture by Rockne Krebs entitled Starboard Home on the Range, Part VI[12] The sculpture was a featuring a green laser beam from the Pier directed towards downtown St. Petersburg, reflecting to the Pier several times with mirrors, finally reflecting out to Tampa Bay. When ongoing technical problems with cooling the laser engine caused repeated disfunction, the laser sculputre was shut down.
Popular culture
A significant amount of footage was filmed in and around the Pier for the second and third season of the mid-1990s television series seaQuest DSV.The Pier was shown prominently on the cover of local zombie anthology, Zombie St. Pete. This is a short story collection featuring fictional zombie attacks in the St. Petersburg city. The Pier also held the Zombie St. Pete book release party on February 27, 2010.
On June 17, 1922, 18-year old Dorothy MacLatchie was killed by a "monster fish" while floating next to the Municipal Pier, St. Petersburg, Florida. While some reports indicate her death was caused by a shark, newspaper accounts indicate her death was caused by a barracuda.[13][14]
Plans for a new pier
"The Lens" design by Michael Maltzan Architecture was selected as the new pier design.[7] Design plan proposals were also submitted by BIG and West 8.[15]A campaign to stop the destruction of the existing pier and prevent the lens design from repacing it has called for a referendum. One issue with the Lens design is its plans for a visible reef. Scientists have concluded that visibility in the Tampa Bay make the design plan unrealistic..[16]
References
- ^ About.com: Tampa Bay
- ^ The New York Times Travel Guide to St. Petersburg: Frommer's Review of The Pier
- ^ The secret power of Bill Harvard The Floridian Septermber 9, 1973 St. Petersburg Times
- ^ AOL Local City's Best guide
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ a b "St. Petersburg Pier International Design Competition" city web site
- ^ The New St. Petersburg Pier Concept "The Lens" city flickr page
- ^ "St. Petersburg applies for permit to demolish Pier" Tampa Bay Times, Saturday, September 8, 2012
- ^ The Pier's official website
- ^ St. Petersburg Pier Advisory Task Force Design Subcommittee Meeting Minutes, Monday, August 17, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
- ^ [3]
- ^ http://www3.gendisasters.com/florida/17951/st-petersburg-fl-attacked-barracuda-jun-1922
- ^ http://www.goshark.co.za/incident.php?id=755
- ^ [http://www.archdaily.com/188775/final-design-proposals-for-the-st-petersburg-pier-design-competition/ Final design proposals for the St Petersburg Pier design competition
- ^ Despite controversy Michael Maltzan Architecture's Lens will go on
External links
- Official website
- Website opposing the Pier's demolition
- Website opposing the New Pier Plan - The Lens
- http://goflorida.about.com/od/saintpetersburg/a/stpete_pier.htm
- http://goflorida.about.com/od/saintpetersburg/ss/stpete_downtown_7.htm
- city web site - "New Pier Plan - The Lens"
- "The Lens - NEW St. Pete Pier Website"
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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| Carries |   I-275 / US 19 4 General purpose lanes |
| Crosses | Tampa Bay |
| Locale | South of St. Petersburg and north of Terra Ceia, Florida |
| Maintained by | Florida Department of Transportation |
| ID number | 150189 |
| Design | continuous pre-stressed concrete cable-stayed bridge |
| Total length | 4.1 miles (6.6 km) |
| Width | 94 feet (29 m) |
| Height | 431 feet (131 m) |
| Longest span | 1,200 feet (366 m) |
| Vertical clearance | 193 feet (59 m) |
| Clearance below | 175 feet (53 m) |
| Opened | 1954 (original bridge, collapsed 1980) April 20, 1987 (new bridge) |
| Toll | $1.25 for passenger cars or $1.00 with SunPass[1] |
| Daily traffic | 50,500[2][3][4] |
| Coordinates | 27.625°N 82.65833°WCoordinates: 27.625°N 82.65833°W |
It is constructed of steel and concrete. Steel cables clad in 84 9-inch (229 mm) steel tubes (42 per pylon) along the center line of the bridge support the main span. It was designed by the Figg & Muller Engineering Group (who also designed the popular Seven Mile Bridge), and built by the American Bridge Company.
In 2005, an act of Florida Legislature officially named the current bridge the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, after the Governor of Florida and then U.S. Senator who presided over its design and most of its construction. According to sources, 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.
The Travel Channel rated the Sunshine Skyway #3 in its special on the "Top 10 Bridges" in the World. The bridge is considered the "flag bridge" of Florida.[6]
Because of its height above the emerald-green Gulf waters, length of continuous travel, location in a warm-weather state, and modern architectural design, it is a popular spot for filming automobile commercials.
One of the major problems 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.[6] Another problem arose around 2005–2006 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 over the years but began to show through over recent years. In 2008, FDOT began an overhaul including repainting the cables in their entirety (instead of touching up) and rehabilitating the lighting system at the summit of the bridge.[7]
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The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge
The present bridge replaces a steel cantilever bridge of the same name. The original two-lane bridge built by the Virginia Bridge Company was opened to traffic on September 6, 1954,[8][9] with a similar structure built parallel and to the west of it in 1969 to make it a four-lane bridge and bring it to Interstate 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.[10] The second span was used for all southbound traffic, while the original span was converted to carry northbound traffic.The old bridge replaced a ferry from Point Pinellas to Piney Point. US 19 was extended from St. Petersburg to its current end north of Palmetto when the bridge opened. The engineer associated with its construction is Freeman Horton, who built the seawalls along the bay for Tampa and purchased Seagate from Powel Crosley following WWII.
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge is featured in the old-time radio series "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" in the episode "The Fancy Bridgework Matter" (11/22/1959) and in the original opening credits to the 1988 Superboy TV series which showed the hero flying over the damaged original span and then turning to view the new bridge under construction.
The remaining approaches to the old cantilever bridge remain in use as Skyway Fishing Pier State Park.
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge was the site of a number of tragic events, including the collision of the US Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn and outbound freighter Capricorn in 1980 which claimed 23 Coast Guardsmen's lives,[11] and a structural collapse caused by a collision with the bridge support by the inbound freighter Summit Venture in 1980 which killed 35 people and ultimately ended the bridge spans' useful life.
The Blackthorn tragedy
On January 28, 1980, the 180ft Iris class buoy tender USCGC Blackthorn was outbound from Tampa Bay, having just completed a total refit, as the 605ft tanker Capricorn [12] was inbound. Having just been overtaken by a brightly lit cruise ship, the Blackthorn had maneuvered into the center of the channel to allow the passenger ship to pass. As a consequence of the cruise ship's lights, the Blackthorn was unable to see the approaching Capricorn in the night's darkness. As the two ships approached, the Blackthorn gave two short whistles to signal its intention to pass to starboard as the Capricorn crowded the center of the channel. At some point, the Blackthorn, helmed by a junior officer, initiated evasive action but it was already too late. The two ships collided nearly head-on, with the anchor of the tanker imbedding itself in the hull plates of the cutter. At least 6 crewmen of the Blackthorn were trapped by the mangled metal skin of the ship. As the ships' momentum carried each other along, the anchor line of the tanker grew taut and pulled the Blackthorn over, capsizing the smaller ship and resulting in the drowning deaths of 23 crew trapped on board and below decks, approximately 3/4 of a mile from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.Following the accident, the Blackthorn was recovered and taken to drydock for postmortem analysis. Because it had been involved in a fatal accident, it was decided not to repair the vessel.[citation needed] She was stripped of her gear and had her mast and superstructure reduced. The hull was then towed offshore and intentionally sunk as an artificial reef.
The Summit Venture disaster
The southbound span (opened in 1971) of the original bridge was destroyed at 7:30 a.m. on May 9, 1980, when the freighter MV Summit Venture collided with a pier (support column) during a storm, sending over 1200 feet (366m) 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.[13][14]One man, Wesley MacIntire, survived the fall when his car landed on the deck of the Summit Venture before falling into the bay. He sued the company that owned the ship, and settled for $175,000 in 1984.[15]
The south main pier (the one that required reinforcement before completion) withstood the ship strike without significant damage. It was the second pier to the south of it that was destroyed, a secondary pier that was not designed to withstand a large ship strike.[10]
After the Summit Venture disaster, the northbound span carried 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 40 white carnations into the water, one for each person who died in the disaster.[17] The main span of the northbound bridge was 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 (0.8 km) to the south and west of the current bridge.
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 (0.4 km) in either direction are surrounded by large concrete barriers called "dolphins" that can protect the bridge piers from collisions with ships larger than the Summit Venture like tankers, container ships, and cruise ships.[18]
1993 demolition
In 1990 the Florida Department of Transportation awarded the winning bid to the Hardaway Company to demolish all steel and concrete sections of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. 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.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 4 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 21⁄2 hours despite adverse weather conditions.[19]
Bridge suicides
According to compilations from various media reports as of 2009, at least 207 people have committed suicide by jumping from the center span into the waters of Tampa Bay since the opening of the new bridge in 1987, and an estimated 34 others have tried, but survived. A Rottweiler named Shasta survived after either following or being carried over the edge by its owner, who died.[20] Another 51 people ended their lives from the old Sunshine Skyway from 1954 to 1987. One man (23 year old Michael "Luciano"[21] Plezia of Cleveland) was forced to jump at gunpoint in 1981, after having been kidnapped, beaten, tortured, and stabbed.;[22][23][24] another, a 24 year old Sarasota carpenter, hanged himself from the bridge on Saturday morning, 4 July 1992.[25] Several 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 bridge's popularity as a method of demise for the depressed, 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 received 18 calls from potential jumpers, all of whom survived, according to a St. Petersburg Times report.[26] However, the total number of jumpers has not significantly declined since the introduction of these safeguards.
On April 27, 1997, a group of amateur daredevils, led by a bartender from Ft. Lauderdale and composed of a mix of male and female participants, performed an unannounced guerrilla "pendulum swing" bungee jump off the bridge, wherein they planned to swing back and forth on a home-made bungee cord made of steel cable attached to the cast-off point. Arriving by stretch limousine, the group unexpectedly pulled over at the apex of the bridge, quickly rigged up their cable, tethered themselves to it with harnesses, and jumped over the edge. This stunt failed when the plastic sheathing on the steel cable, unable to handle the increase in gravitational forces exerted on it by the initial pendulum swing, sheared off and allowed the connecting clamps to slide freely off the cable, plunging the jumpers 60 feet (18 m) into the water, leading to broken bones and neck injuries. The entire accident was caught on multiple video cameras that had been set up to record the feat.[27]
When later interviewed for a television video program, the group's leader stated that all of the components were rated to handle the combined weight of the participants, and, at the time, he thought the assembly was safe. Later studies showed that his design had failed to take into account the increased g-load caused by the pendulum action of the jump itself, exceeding the ratings on the components and leading to catastrophic failure of the structural integrity of the bungee cable. Since the accident, no other groups have attempted to perform a stunt jump from the bridge. This incident aired on Destroyed In Seconds on March 2, 2009.
In 2006, a feature film entitled Loren Cass was released, which depicted a suicide jump off the Sunshine Skyway.[28] 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 non-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",[29] to give them "hope and to try to de-glorify the romanticism of the bridge",[30] in part by informing those who have "mulled a leap to know about the bloody, battered aftermath."[29]
Corporal Gary Schluter of the Florida State Highway Patrol - who has "seen the number of suicides, and attempts, climb steadily over the last few years" at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, as well as persuaded multiple would-be suicides at that site to live - advises: "People look at that water and think it's very serene, an easy way to die." But "it's more like hitting concrete." As he and other troopers explained to The New York Times reporter Rick Bragg, "Jumpers tend to die ugly. [...] The fall, less than four seconds, ends in a bone-snapping, organ-rupturing trauma, but some jumpers do not lose consciousness, and drown in agony." Schluter elaborated: "We retrieve the bodies. They are distorted, mangled."[31]
On October 12, 2009, a body was found in the trunk of a burning car. Witnesses saw a man carrying a gas can near the car. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper later saw the man jump from the bridge, to his death.[32] After an investigation, authorities deemed the deaths a murder-suicide. The jumper, Robert Cecil Laird, shot his ex-wife, Sheryl Laird (39), multiple times at her home in Lakeland before depositing her body in the vehicle's trunk and driving approximately 60 miles (97 km) to the bridge, where he set the car afire and jumped to his death.[33]
Stopping on the bridge for any non-emergency (including sightseeing) is prohibited. As part of a controlled-access highway, pedestrians and bicycles are also prohibited. Traffic on the bridge is remotely monitored by the Florida Highway Patrol, and a stopped or illegal vehicle or a pedestrian will elicit a police dispatch.[34]
In popular culture
Sunshine Skyway Bridge has provided the setting for several films over the years, both credited and uncredited (e.g., Loren Cass and The Punisher (2004)).The song "Skyway Avenue" by local band We The Kings is named in reference to the bridge.
In 2012, the United States Postal Service featured the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on a US$5.15 priority mail postage stamp. Carl T. Hermann painted it, and the digital illustration was created by artist Dan Cosgrove.[35]
As previously mentioned, the Travel Channel rated the Sunshine Skyway #3 in its special on the "Top 10 Bridges" in the World.
The bridge is considered the "flag bridge" of Florida.[6]
Gallery
Current Bridge
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The bridge at twilight
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View of bridge from Fort De Soto Park's East Beach
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge from South Pier rest area
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Driving on the bridge, near the peak
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View of bridge heading south
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As seen from the water of Tampa Bay
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View looking up while driving across Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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A view of the bridge
Old Bridge demolition
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Before demolition
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Before demolition
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Demolition of concrete structure and slab - South access road
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Demolition of concrete structure and slab - North access road
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Demolition of steel and concrete girders. Truncated pier visible was the one struck by Summit Venture
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Main bridge span secure on barge being towed away
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Blasting concrete piers
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Blasting steel truss
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Blasting steel truss
Media coverage
- Editorial (1991-09-07). "The Skyway is falling!". ENR Engineering News Weekly. p. 13.
- Editorial (1991-09-13). "The Sunshine Skyway Bridge - a History of Ups and Downs". Dodge Construction Magazine. pp. 5–6.
- Starnes, Sam (1991-09-25). "Original Skyway's main span removed". The Bradenton Herald. p. A3-A6.
See also
- Skyway Fishing Pier State Park
- Millau Viaduct, France, a later, similar design
- Suicide bridge
References
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- ^ Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (PDF). 2006 Average Annual Daily Traffic Counts in Pinellas County (A.A.D.T.) (Map). Retrieved 2008-01-13.
- ^ Florida Department of Transportation (PDF). PTMS and TTMS Sites, 2006, Pinellas County (15) (Map). Retrieved 2008-01-13.
- ^ "2006 Annual Average Daily Traffic Report" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportation. pp. Site 0088. Archived from the original on 2008-02-16. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
- ^ "National Bridge Inventory Database". Nationalbridges. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
- ^ a b c Garcia, Jose. "The Skyway Bridge - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportaiton. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ St. Petersburg Times
- ^ "Tampa Bay Crossing Spans 14 Miles of Tidewater." Popular Mechanics, August 1954, pp. 72-73
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S5kcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1GQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4161%2C1128738
- ^ a b http://interstate275florida.blogspot.com/2009/07/old-sunshine-skyway-bridge.html
- ^ U.S. Coast Guard Cutter History
- ^ Porter, Suzette (30). "Coast Guard marks Blackthorn’s sinking". tbnweekly.com. Tampa Bay Newspapers. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "A blinding squall, then death". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
- ^ Jean Heller (2000-05-07). "The Day Skyway Fell: May 9, 1980". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
- ^ "Suit in Bridge Fall Settlement". New York Times Archives. May 6, 1984. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
- ^ Jean Heller (2000-05-07). "Memories stay with man at command of the ship". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
- ^ Wright, E. Lynne (2006). Disasters and Heroic Rescues of Florida. Morris book publishing, LLC. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7627-3984-4.
- ^ "Building big: Databank: Sunshine Skyway Bridge". PBS Online. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
- ^ King, Robert (September 25, 1991). "Chunk of Old Skyway Dismantled". The Brandenton Herald (Brandenton, Florida) 70 (11): 1B.
- ^ Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer. "Saturday, July 25, 2009". St. Petersburg Times.
- ^ "Murder Victim Identified as Ohioan". Sarasota Herald Tribune. Tuesday, July 21, 1981. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ Robert Barnes (April 16, 1982). "Three Found Guilty in Skyway Murder Case". St. Petersburg Times. p. 9B. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ "Divers Recover Body of Man Forced to Jump From Skyway". Gainesville Sun. July 19, 1981. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ "Man Who Was Forced From Span Identified". Palm Beach Post. July 22, 1981. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ "Sarasota Man Jumps From Bridge, Hangs". Ocala Star-Banner. Associated Press. 6 July 1992. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ Jones, Jamie (October 6, 2003). "Skyway safeguards don't deter jumpers". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
- ^ O'Neil, Deborah (April 28, 1997). "Four hurt in Skyway stunt". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ Wilson, Jon (October 11, 2006). "Movie will have its first local viewing". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
- ^ a b Katie Sanders, Times Staff Writer (Sunday, June 13, 2010). The New York Times http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article1101741.ece
|url=missing title (help). Retrieved 21 September 2012. - ^ "Skyway Down: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem; A Film Project". Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ Bragg, Rick (9 May 1999). "On Florida Bridge, Troopers Are Also Suicide Counselors". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ "Body found in trunk of burned car on Skyway". Bay News 9. 12 October 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ JOSH POLTILOVE and JENNIFER LEIGH (Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.; Last Modified: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:49 p.m.). "Body identified as jumper's wife". Tampa Tribune. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ http://www.interstate275florida.com/pdf/I275-FAQ.pdf
- ^ "Sunshine Skyway Bridge to be on postage stamp". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Sarasota, Florida. December 30, 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sunshine Skyway Bridge |
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge page on Interstate275Florida.com
- [://www.sptimes.com/News/050700/TampaBay/Horrific_accident_cre.shtml "The Day The Skyway Fell"], A special of the St. Petersburg Times on May 7, 2000
- "Video archives: 1980 Sunshine Skyway accident", A special section from WTVT-TV
- Work projects on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge website with database on suicides, accidents, and other fascinating information and photos.
- Audio recording of Mayday call made from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse, Tampa Bay, Florida, May 1980 (MP3 format) (updated URI, June 29, 2005)
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge Demolition on YouTube
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