01/21/2024
Love the Skyway Bridge. Always amazing things to see when crossing it!
A cruise ship going under the beautiful Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
đź“ť Did you know that the new mega cruise ships cannot fit beneath the Sunshine Skyway Bridge? The Skyway can handle cruise ships that measure 180 feet from the top of the waterline. But the mega ships can sit as high as 225 feet above the waterline.
The cruise ships that sail up and down Tampa Bay generate more than $380 million in annual economic activity for the area and help support up to 2,000 jobs.
Building a new Skyway (which was finished in 1987) would cost $2 billion. It also would take two years to tear down the current bridge and four years to build a new one.
Source: The Tampa Bay Times.
📸 The shot was taken from Tierra Verde by Jonathan Jones
