As we look forward to a new span across Tampa Bay, let’s look back in time 65 years to the original bridge’s debut.
Developer George Gandy funded the first bridge linking Tampa and St. Petersburg in the 1920s. It took $3 million and 1,500 workers to finish the 2.5-mile span. The Gandy Bridge was replaced in ...
A tractor-trailer fire beneath the Evelyn Gandy Parkway bridge on Interstate 59 south snarled traffic for a good hour ...
Even though the Gandy Bridge had already gotten a second span at that point, raising the number of lanes to four, it wasn’t enough to carry all of the people that flowed back and forth between ...