John Ringling Causeway

John Ringling Causeway
Coordinates	27°19′34″N 82°33′46″W / 27.3262°N 82.5628°W / 27.3262; -82.5628Coordinates: 27°19′34″N 82°33′46″W / 27.3262°N 82.5628°W / 27.3262; -82.5628
Carries	SR 789^[1]
Crosses	Sarasota Bay
Locale	Sarasota County, Florida
Characteristics
Total length	943.98 m (3,097 ft)
Width	32.42 m (106 ft)
History
Construction cost	$68,000,000^[2]
Opened	2003

John Ringling Causeway (also known as Ringling Bridge or Gil Waters Bridge)^[3] is a bridge that extends past the Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to Lido Key. Construction of the bridge started in 2001 and ended in 2003. The bridge was made by John Ringling.^[4] This is another bridge by Ringling, the first being constructed in 1925.^[5]

References

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 Thomas B. Manuel Blue Heron Flagler Memorial

West Central	Bayside Blackburn Point Bridge^‡ 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 Sebastian Inlet Wabasso Merrill P. Barber Alma Lee Loy Whitehair

South	Broad Coral Springs^† Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy Lehman MacArthur Rickenbacker Snow-Reed^‡ Venetian

Southwest	Boca Grande^‡ Bonita Beach Caloosahatchee Cape Coral Edison John Ringling Matanzas Pass Midpoint Sanibel S.S. Jolley

Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Overseas Highway Seven Mile

Tunnels	Henry E. Kinney Port of Miami

Ferries	Drayton Island Fort Gates Mayport

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