Mid-Bay Bridge

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Mid-Bay Bridge
Official name	Choctawhatchee Mid-Bay Bridge
Carries	SR 293
Crosses	Choctawhatchee Bay
Maintained by	FDOT
Total length	3.6 miles
Opened	June 1993
Toll	$3

Coordinates	30°26′00″N 86°25′05″W / 30.433393°N 86.418006°W / 30.433393; -86.418006Coordinates: 30°26′00″N 86°25′05″W / 30.433393°N 86.418006°W / 30.433393; -86.418006

The Mid-Bay Bridge or Choctawhatchee Mid-Bay Bridge is a 141-span, 3.6-mile (5.8 km), two-lane toll bridge in Okaloosa County in the Florida Panhandle. It connects U.S. Highway 98 in Destin to State Road 20 in Niceville. The bridge generally runs north-south; the approaches to the bridge carry the State Road 293 designation while the bridge itself carries the TOLL 293 shield.

The bridge crosses Choctawhatchee Bay, part of the Intracoastal Waterway. It was constructed in 1992-93, when the Florida Department of Transportation recognized the growing need for a more direct route between the Destin beaches and the mainland for tourists and to assist hurricane evacuation from population centers and resorts on the Gulf of Mexico.

There is one toll plaza at the north end of the bridge. As of June 1, 2010, the one way toll for a standard 2-axle vehicle was $3.00. Tolls may be paid with cash or with the SunPass electronic toll system.

Mid-Bay Bridge Connector Project

The Mid-Bay Bridge Connector is an extension of State Road 293 currently under construction north of the bridge span. The first phase of this project changed the alignment of State Road 293 from White Point Road to a newly constructed divided highway to the east. This highway provides a new grade separated interchange at Lakeshore Drive, providing access to the bridge's administration building and the Maxwell-Gunter Military Recreation Area (Mid-Bay Shores). The first phase of the project opened with a grade separated interchange with State Road 20 in Seminole. This section opened to traffic on May 12, 2011.

The remaining phases of the connector project extended the highway as a four lane divided highway with Open-Road Tolling (ORT) from State Road 20 to a grade separated interchange at Range Road, then as a two lane road north of Range Road with provisions for eventual expansion to a four lane divided highway. The road includes an intersection at Forest Road, and grade separated interchanges at State Road 285, and State Road 85.^[1] The section between Range Road and State Road 85 opened on January 4, 2014.^[2]

External links

References

↑ "Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 July 2010.
↑ "New Mid-Bay Connector Opens at a Cost". Retrieved 4 January 2014.

v t e Notable bridges and tunnels in Florida

Panhandle	Escambia Bay Garcon Point John Gorrie Mid-Bay Pensacola Bay St. George Island Trammell Victory

North	Acosta Bridge of Lions Main Street Buckman Dames Point Fuller Warren Hart Mathews Memorial Strauss Trunnion

West Central	Bayside Clearwater Memorial Courtney Campbell Gandy Howard Frankland Pinellas Bayway Sunshine Skyway Treasure Island

East Central	A. Max Brewer Astor Bennett Bert Dosh Broadway Eau Gallie Granada Melbourne Merritt Island NASA Osteen Pineda Port Orange Roosevelt Wabasso Whitehair

South	Boca Grande^‡ Broad Cape Coral Coral Springs^† Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy John Ringling Lehman MacArthur Matanzas Pass Midpoint Rickenbacker Sanibel Snow-Reed^‡ Venetian

Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Overseas Highway Seven Mile

Tunnels	New River Port of Miami

Ferries	Drayton Island Fort Gates Mayport

^† – Covered bridge ^‡ – Swing bridge See also: List of bridges in Florida

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