A new Howard Frankland Bridge opens soon. People once protested the original span.
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.
Hosted on MSN1mon
What's in a name: Gandy Bridge
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 ...
Yahoo9d
A new Howard Frankland Bridge opens soon. People once protested the original span.
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 ...