Howard Frankland Bridge, Road bridge in Tampa Bay, United States.

The Howard Frankland Bridge is a highway crossing over Old Tampa Bay in Florida that links St. Petersburg with Tampa. It runs as part of Interstate 275 for about 5.8 miles (9.3 kilometers) and carries traffic between Pinellas County and Hillsborough County.

The bridge opened in 1960 with four lanes and gained a second parallel structure in 1990 to handle growing traffic volumes. A new replacement span has been under construction since 2020 and is scheduled to finish in early 2026.

The bridge is named for William Howard Frankland, the Tampa businessman who proposed it. Its cramped early design, lacking emergency shoulders, earned it the nicknames "Howard Frankenstein Bridge" and "The Car-Strangled Spanner". Drivers still sometimes call it the Howard Franklin Bridge by mistake.

The rebuilt span opened to southbound traffic overnight on March 25, 2025, and northbound traffic moved onto the former southbound bridge on July 9, 2025. The 1960s northbound structure is to be removed by spring 2026. The new span carries a separate pedestrian and bicycle path and tolled express lanes in both directions.

Howard Frankland was a Tampa businessman who actively promoted building this connection across the bay. Once the new bridge opens, the current southbound span will be repurposed to carry northbound traffic instead.