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Many Tampa Bay residents feel a surge of civic pride as they drive across the new $244 million, 4.1-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the centerpiece of a 13- mile causeway connecting the tip of St. Petersburg's peninsula to the mainland. The span replaces a pair of cantilevered bridges, built in 1954 and 1971. The newer of the two collapsed in 1980, killing 35 people, when it was hit by a freighter during a blinding rainstorm. After the accident, more than 20,000 vehicles a day crowded onto the single remaining two-lane span. Government officials could have repaired...
Vermont: "Hi, we're the Vermont Catamounts and we were walking around Causeway Street and decided to join you guys in this ECAC semifinal thing. It sounds like...
...various ways the tiny Texas beach town of South Padre Island (pop. 1,052) was coping with an invasion of college students and the questionable distinction of being the newest hot spot on the spring-break circuit. A short causeway ride off the south Texas coast, South Padre Island has attracted students from some 70 campuses this year. By the end of the month nearly 200,000 had hit the local beaches, a fivefold increase from five years...
Peter Chiarelli stood on the sidewalk of a darkened Causeway St. at 1 a.m. yesterday morning and tried to describe how he felt...
Once you dodge the traffic on Causeway Street and the numerous commuters in the train station, it's time to start thinking about finding your seat...