Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

The Memorial Causeway Bridge has finally opened. With as many problems as the Ocean Jewel and the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, it seemed actually being able to use it was a pipe dream. But in spite of all that, you can now see cars heading in either direction.

So, now that it’s receiving traffic, are its problems gone? Ha! Of course not.

On the first day of traffic, the opening was delayed by bad weather.

The grand opening celebration, scheduled for tomorrow, has been moved. Indoors. The 3K run will might go on as scheduled, but participants would take an alternate route. The bridge won’t close to vehicles for the race, either. Runners will have to sprint along the sidewalk. If you decide to join in the festivities and jog alongside your neighbors, I implore you to be careful.

Why? Less than a week after it opened, someone has already died after biking over the thing.

The Times says the new bridge sure is pretty. Sticks of Fire says it’s the Bridge of Death.

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