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7 mile bridge

The Seven Mile Bridge is a famous bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It connects Knight's Key (part of the city of Marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is one of the many bridges on US 1 in the Keys, where the road is called the Overseas Highway.

 

Design: precast segmented box girder bridge

Total length:10887.5 meters (6.765 miles)

Width: 11.58 meters (38 ft)

Longest span: 41.15 meters (135 ft)

Clearance below:19.81 meter (65 ft)

Opened: May 24, 1982

 

Source: www.wikipedia.org

 

December 27, 2011, 7 mile bridge, Florida, taken from here.

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Taken on December 27, 2011