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The 2.2-mile (3.5 km) section to Pigeon Key, used as a fishing pier and long open to motorized vehicles to give access to the key, was closed to motorized traffic in 2008 after the unsupported sections began to sag. [3] In 2014, the Florida Department of Transportation approved a $77 million plan to restore the old bridge. [2]
The U.S. state of Florida, due to being a peninsula and its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, has many bridges of varying lengths. The longest bridge in the state is the Seven Mile Bridge located in the Florida Keys. This list includes overwater automobile bridges 2,640 feet (800 m) or longer.
The current bridge bypasses Pigeon Key, a small island that housed workers building Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway in the 1900s, that the original Seven Mile Bridge crossed. A 2.2-mile (3.5 km) section of the old bridge remains for access to the island, although it was closed to vehicular traffic on March 4, 2008.
READ MORE; The Seven Mile Bridge isn’t 7 miles and carries water to the Keys. What to know about it This week, Monroe County leaders said a replacement for the 40-year-old Seven Mile Bridge ...
Florida has plans to replace the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys. If the state follows through, the construction of a new span would be the third Seven Mile Bridge. According to plans, a new ...
The Molasses Keys are a small group of islands in the Florida Keys. Located a quarter mile south of the Seven Mile Bridge, 4 miles west of Marathon, and a mile and a half east of Money Key, [1] it is a frequented boating and camping spot. There are four islands, three are always above water, two of which are able to be walked on.
Christa McAuliffe Bridge, SR 3 over Canaveral Barge Canal, Merritt Island; State Road 401 Bridge, SR 401 over Canaveral Barge Canal, Port Canaveral; Mathers Bridge, CR 3 over Banana River, Indian Harbour Beach; North Causeway, SR A1A over Indian River (AIWW), Fort Pierce; Hobe Sound Bridge, CR 707 over Indian River (AIWW), Hobe Sound
A Florida Department of Transportation camera shows the flashing lights of rescue vehicles on the Seven Mile Bridge in the Middle Florida Keys early Monday morning, July 18, 2022.