Special bridge construction report of the Hathaway Bridge Project Panama city, Florida, USA
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A modern, elegant new span across St. Andrews Bay.

The new Hathaway Bridge between the Bay County mainland and Panama City Beach will be postcard beautiful,
a slender and graceful structure that is certain to become a new area landmark.
The bridge will be functional as well, providing the traffic capacity needed for future growth and making new
accommodations for bicycle, pedestrian and marine traffic.

Project Overview

1. The Need for a New Bridge

The present day US-98 Hathaway Bridge between
Panama City and Panama City Beach was opened to
traffic in 1960. By 1970, an average 15,600 vehicles
were crossing the bridge each day.
The number doubled by 1982 and approached 57,000
by 1998.The Hathaway Bridge has been a transportation
bottleneck since the late 1980's, but the problem runs
much deeper than travel delays:

Congestion on the narrow bridge causes traffic accidents and injuries; the resulting gridlock slows transportation and
commerce over a much larger area.

From 1993 to 1997, a total of 416 traffic accidents occurred between the western bridge approach at Woodlawn Avenue and the eastern approach at College Drive.
The accidents resulted in 442 injuries and a total economic loss of approximately $28 million dollars.
The bridge provides no refuge lane for stalled vehicles, and has no sidewalk or protected lane for bicycles and pedestrians.
The bridge's low clearance impedes marine traffic.

Project over time the economic loss from traffic accidents and lost business - then allow for the cost of living -- and the $86 million dollars being spent to replace the bridge becomes a very logical investment.

The new Hathaway Bridge will handle more traffic with greater efficiency, provide increased safety margins,
contribute to the entire area transportation network, and improve the overall experience of visitors to greater
Panama City:

• An estimated 97,700 vehicles will use the bridge every day by 2020
• The new bridge includes protected lanes for bicycles and pedestrians
• A higher vertical clearance will allow for freer flow of marine traffic
• New recreation areas will be located at both ends of the new bridge
• Less congestion means more visitors will stop at area businesses

The new Hathaway Bridge will be a beautiful new landmark for Bay County; it will stimulate area commerce by moving
more traffic through the area.
Bay County will begin to see the benefits when the first of the two new spans opens in Winter 2002 or Spring 2003.

2. The New Bridge

The new Hathaway Bridge is actually two bridges, which will both carry three lanes of traffic, one auxiliary lane and
one pedestrian/bicycle lane in a single direction. The new bridges will be built just north of the existing bridge and
within existing state right-of-way.
No additional property will be required for the new bridges, and environmental impacts will be minimal.

View of the old Hathaway Bridge seconds before demolition begins.

The two 80' wide segmental bridges which will link Panama City with Panama City Beach on the gulf coast of Florida.
This Project is being constructed by a Design Build team which includes: Granite Construction Company, HNTB,
and Reynolds, Smith & Hills CS.
The project which began in Oct., 2000 should be open to traffic by May of 2004.

A side-by-side comparison

New Bridge (Below)

• Two separate bridges, each consisting of an 80-foot wide bridge deck
• Four 12-foot wide lanes of traffic in each direction
• 10-foot inside and outside shoulders
• 8-foot lane for pedestrian/bicycle traffic on the outer edge, separated from traffic by a concrete "Jersey style"
  barrier
• One lane in each direction to be used as a auxiliary lane, providing a "refuge lane" for disabled vehicles
• Total Bridge Length: approximately 3800 feet
• Vertical Navigational Clearance: 65 feet (meets minimum navigational height for the Intercoastal Waterway)

Existing Bridge (Above)

• A single 62-foot wide bridge deck, carrying four 13-foot wide lanes of traffic (two in each direction)
• Three-foot outside shoulders and a four-foot wide center median with a raised curb, steel guard rails and "blinders"
• No pedestrian access, no dedicated bicycle access
• No "refuge lane" for disabled vehicles
• Total Bridge Length: 3360 feet with 330-foot main span

3. Project Team / Links

The new Hathaway Bridge is being built under a construction model called Design-Build.
Under the Design-Build method, the team of contractors that design the bridge will be the same team responsible for its
construction.
This differs from the more traditional model, where a design is completed first, and contractors bid to construct the project

Design-Build is a proven system that saves time and money.
The various independent contractors on the Hathaway Bridge project are working together as a team to deliver
a high-quality completed project at the lowest possible price.

4. BRUCE SGH-3013 Construction Photos

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