Pensacola Bay Bridge

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Pensacola Bay Bridge
Official name	Phillip Beale Memorial Bridge
Carries	4 lanes of U.S. Highway 98
Crosses	Pensacola Bay
Locale	Pensacola, Florida, and Gulf Breeze, Florida, U.S.
Maintained by	Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
Design	Reinforced concrete girder bridge
Total length	Approx. 3 miles
Opening date	1960

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.

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