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Bridge in Florida, United States

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W. Howard Frankland Span
Aeriform view of the bridge in 2018
Coordinates	27°55′41″N 82°35′15″W / 27.92793°N 82.58755°W / 27.92793; -82.58755 Coordinates: 27°55′41″Due north 82°35′15″W / 27.92793°Northward 82.58755°Due west / 27.92793; -82.58755
Carries	8 lanes of I-275
Crosses	Old Tampa Bay
Locale	Saint petersburg to Tampa, Florida
Other name(s)	Howard Franklin, Frankland Span
Named for	William Howard Frankland
Maintained by	Florida Department of Transportation
ID number	150107 (northbound) 150210 (southbound)
Characteristics
Total length	15,872 ft (4,838 m) (northbound) 15,900 ft (4,800 one thousand) (southbound)
Width	58.four ft (17.8 thousand) (northbound) 68.9 ft (21.0 m) (southbound)
Clearance beneath	43 ft (xiii thou) (northbound) 48.9 ft (14.9 1000) (southbound)
History
Opened	1960 (northbound) 1990 (southbound)
Statistics
Daily traffic	135,000 (2006)^[ane] ^[2] ^[3]
Location

The West. Howard Frankland Bridge is the cardinal bridge spanning Old Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg, Florida to Tampa, Florida. It is ane of three bridges connecting Hillsborough Canton and Pinellas County; the others being Gandy Span and Courtney Campbell Causeway. The bridge carries Interstate 275 and is by far the most traveled of the bay'south bridges.^[1] ^[ii] ^[three]

The span is often incorrectly referred to every bit the Howard Franklin Span.

History [edit]

The original bridge looking west toward St. Petersburg

Named for the man who proposed it, Tampa businessman Howard Frankland, the bridge opened in April 1960 and carried four lanes (two lanes in each direction separated by a short, narrow barrier). The span and approaches cost $16 million.^[four]

Because of the span's design, including its lack of emergency shoulders, it proved to be dangerous. Accidents were common on the bridge and traffic backed up on both sides, leading to local nicknames, the "Howard Frankenstein Bridge" and "The Car-Strangled Spanner".^[5] In 1962, a steel-reinforced tapered concrete bulwark was installed "to prevent cars from hurtling the median and crashing into oncoming traffic." Ten people had already died.^[6] The bridge was the discipline of a 60 Minutes circulate in the 1960s noting the below-average structure methods used.^{[ citation needed ]}

Planning for a larger-chapters replacement began in 1978. Original plans ranged from a large, multi-lane suspension (or similar type) span, to two parallel bridges (with the central bridge reserved for HOV lanes). Every bit traffic projections increased, further exacerbated past a disaster on the Sunshine Skyway Span in 1980, it was clear that the new bridge would need to handle at to the lowest degree eight lanes (four in each direction). By 1987, it was ended that a parallel, 4 lane bridge would be built. Plans were as well fabricated to rehabilitate the older bridge after the new span opened.

Construction began on the new span in 1988. The new $54 million southbound span was opened to traffic in 1990. The older bridge was and then closed, rehabilitated, and reopened in 1992. The older northbound bridge is shorter and has a steeper hump than the newer southbound bridge.

Featherbed system [edit]

Before the parallel bridge was built, I-275 utilized a bypass designation system. Whenever there would be a major filibuster at the Howard Frankland Bridge, special signs would alert drivers to the delay and direct them to utilise the bypass, which ran along SR 694 and beyond the Gandy Bridge, to the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, Willow Avenue, Howard Avenue, and catastrophe at Interstate 275. Special shields (marked Northward and Southward) along the route fabricated sure that drivers were using the correct thoroughfare.^{[ citation needed ]}

Reconstruction of the bridge approaches [edit]

I-275 Northbound budgeted Exit 39 with redesigned and updated sign after Howard Frankland Bridge section.

After the widening project in 1992, Interstate 275 was increased to eight lanes on the span itself. However, this did not increase chapters on either end of the bridge. Backups were still seen on the Howard Frankland heading into Tampa, primarily due to a bottleneck at the SR 60/Veterans Expressway get out. On the St. Petersburg side, afterward a comprehensive reconstruction project that took over ten years, lane counts were increased from 4 lanes prior to the bridge to six lanes through downtown St. Petersburg, and eight lanes from Gandy Boulevard to the bridge.

A reconstruction projection was planned to begin in 2017 for the new Gateway Thruway projection, a plan to build a new toll road to connect unlike parts in Pinellas County. However, FDOT planned to reconstruct the interstate in smaller phases rather than the original larger two-phase project and was delayed to 2020. Once the reconstruction project is finished in 2024 or 2025, major traffic congestion on the Howard Frankland is expected to be significantly reduced.^[7] On January 7, 2021, FDOT postponed to January xvi due to an unforeseen delay in arrival, needed of span equipment. It was scheduled to close down by 8 p.yard., EST, January 9, through Jan ten. This work was part of the U.S. $600 million price route projection.^[8] On January 16 to 17, workers removed the fourth street due north interchange bridge from 8 p.m. on Jan 16, to 12 p.m. on January 17. Exit 32 will remain closed until Late 2021 for workers to build a new go out ramp that will help accommodate the hereafter of Interstate 275.^[9]

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References [edit]

^ ^a ^b 2006 Average Annual Daily Traffic Counts in Pinellas County (A.A.D.T.) (PDF) (Map). Pinellas Canton Metropolitan Planning Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 15, 2007. Retrieved January 13, 2008.
^ ^a ^b PTMS and TTMS Sites, 2006, Pinellas Canton (15) (PDF) (Map). Florida Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2008. Retrieved Jan thirteen, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "2006 Annual Boilerplate Daily Traffic Report" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportation. pp. Site 0062. Archived from the original (PDF) on Feb 16, 2008. Retrieved Jan 13, 2008.
^ Franklands to Play Key Function in Bridge Opening St. Petersburg Times, January xv, 1960
^ The Francis Scott Key Bridge on the Baltimore Beltway is too derisively referred to as "The Car Strangled Spanner," from which those stopped in traffic can actually see Fort McHenry and the harbor where the national anthem was written past the span'due south namesake.
^ Bayway Paving Chore to Start in Two Weeks St. petersburg Times, January 30, 1962
^ http://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/traffic/2018/04/18/howard-frankland-bridge-traffic-getting-at that place
^ https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/howard-frankland-bridge-construction-project-postponed-to-jan-16/
^ https://www.fox13news.com/news/howard-frankland-bridge-to-shut-this-weekend-for-bridge-removal-on-pinellas-county-side

External links [edit]

Howard Frankland Bridge folio at Interstate275Florida.com
I-275 program hits $100M crash-land Article on the 2006 I-275 expansion setback St. Petersburg Times (June 28, 2006)