Cars will begin rolling across Tampa Bay‘s eye-catching new Howard Frankland Bridge on March 24. The $865 million project is the most expensive bridge ever built in Florida. Traffic heading to St. Petersburg will switch to the new span that night.
Rising 10 feet higher than the old bridge, this massive structure is now Florida’s biggest bridge by surface area. It features eight lanes, split between regular and express lanes, able to handle 250,000 vehicles daily.
Work began in 2020, three years after officials came up with their fix for the growing traffic problems between the cities. Daily traffic has grown 50% since 2006…