Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine

One last photo from the rooftop...this one looking east from downtown St. Augustine towards Anastasia Island.

One of the landmarks of the city was the Bridge of Lions which spans the Matanzas River between St. Augustine and Anastasia Island. Built in 1927, it was determined to be structural unsound and obsolete in 1999. In 2006, a massive engineering project costing approximately 77 million dollars was kicked off to reconstruct the old bridge. The marble lions which stood at the ends of the bridge were placed in storage and will be returned once construction is complete in approx. 2010.

To allow for this construction, a temporary bridge was erected. In this photo you can see the temporary bridge with traffic passing across it. To the right is the "new" Bridge of Lions under construction.