Howard Frankland Bridge Closure Set For This Weekend

From the Pinellas County Government:

January 6, 2021

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will be closing all I-275 travel lanes on the Howard Frankland Bridge from 8 p.m. Saturday through noon Sunday, weather permitting. Motorists will need to use alternate routes, including Gandy Bridge and Courtney Campbell Causeway.

Pinellas County Traffic Management has activated numerous digital signs advising motorists of the closure and will adjust timing of some signals and monitor alternate routes to ease traffic impacts. Other main roads will remain open, including Roosevelt Boulevard and the Bayside Bridge.

The closure is part of the Gateway Expressway project and is needed so that crews can remove the Fourth Street North bridge over I-275. Wrong-way driver technology will be tested during the closure.

A map of the detours and other information can be found at FDOTtampabay.com.

This press release was produced by the Pinellas County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.