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After discontinuation of automobile traffic, the viaduct was repurposed again as a bike path and fishing pier. For the most part, the deck of the viaduct was reduced to its original width from the railroad era. There are several fishing platform on both sides of the bridge. The viaduct is now part
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struck the area, which irreparably destroyed the railroad in the upper keys. The viaduct itself though was not heavily damaged. The
Florida East Coast Railway then sold the remaining right of way and infrastructure to the state, who then built the Overseas Highway along the route. To accommodate
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The current bridge is a box-girder structure built from precast, prestressed concrete sections. The bridge consists of 103 spans total, two of which are 117 feet long with the remaining spans at a length of 118 feet. The spans are supported by a series of V-shaped piers. This method allowed the
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Opening in 1982, the current bridge was built as part of a modernization effort for the entire
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361:Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail
345:National Register of Historic Places
130:Florida Department of Transportation
323:Long Key Viaduct under construction
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1264:Arch bridges in the United States
1209:Bridges in Monroe County, Florida
488:"Construction of Long Key Bridge"
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339:Long Key Viaduct as of 2015
329:Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
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1214:Florida East Coast Railway
1155:List of bridges in Florida
310:Florida East Coast Railway
226:, roughly halfway between
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1234:Road bridges in Florida
353:Bahia Honda Rail Bridge
212:Dante B. Fascell Bridge
121:Dante B. Fascell Bridge
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692:Herman C. McCray Jr.
380:Transport portal
246:, which carried the
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568:Bridges and tunnels
275:U.S. Representative
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516:"Long Key Channel"
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306:Overseas Railroad
254:Current Structure
248:Overseas Railroad
240:Seven Mile Bridge
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757:East Central
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165:Total length
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971:Boca Grande
849:Port Orange
657:Dames Point
647:Main Street
596:John Gorrie
218:connecting
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42:Coordinates
1198:Categories
1134:Fort Gates
1092:Seven Mile
1072:Card Sound
1046:Stan Gober
1006:Fort Hamer
986:Cape Coral
935:Royal Park
890:Blue Heron
839:Pete Damon
804:Lake Jesup
794:Eau Gallie
410:References
238:after the
157:segmented
55:80°52′05″W
52:24°47′49″N
1051:Tom Adams
959:Southwest
940:Snow-Reed
925:MacArthur
874:Whitehair
854:Roosevelt
814:Melbourne
784:Bert Dosh
697:L.E. Buie
579:Panhandle
224:Conch Key
168:2.3 miles
137:ID number
89:US 1
1082:Long Key
1031:Midpoint
950:Venetian
789:Broadway
677:Memorial
616:Trammell
367:See also
351:and the
232:Key West
220:Long Key
196:Location
1139:Mayport
1122:Ferries
1101:Tunnels
1036:Sanibel
869:Wabasso
799:Granada
779:Bennett
713:Bayside
672:Mathews
652:Buckman
621:Victory
601:Mid-Bay
572:Florida
359:of the
183:History
178:25 feet
155:precast
100:Crosses
80:Carries
1001:Edison
996:Desoto
991:Cortez
920:Lehman
844:Pineda
834:Osteen
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188:Opened
151:Design
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108:Locale
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774:Astor
728:Gandy
630:North
228:Miami
1060:Keys
829:NASA
667:Hart
527:2015
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