Pensacola Bay Bridge

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bridge_name= Pensacola Bay Bridge


caption=The bridge on May 6 2006, looking north.
official_name=Phillip Beale Memorial Bridge
crosses=Pensacola Bay
carries=4 lanes of U.S. Highway 98
locale=Pensacola, Florida, and Gulf Breeze, Florida, U.S.
design=Reinforced concrete girder bridge
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length=Approx. 3 miles
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open= 1960
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maint=Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
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The Pensacola Bay Bridge, also known locally as the Three-Mile Bridge, runs between downtown Pensacola, Florida, and Gulf Breeze, Florida. It carries four lanes of U.S. Highway 98 across Pensacola Bay.

In its current configuration, the bridge opened to traffic in 1960, at which time it replaced a narrow two-lane bridge that ran parallel just to the east. This original bridge was tolled and signed as TOLL US 98 until the bridge bonds were paid off. The decommissioned original bridge served as two 1.5-mile-long fishing piers until they were largely destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. By 2007, the remainder of the northernmost fishing pier was demolished.