Granada Bridge, Road bridge in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Granada Bridge is a four-lane concrete and steel high-clearance bridge carrying State Road 40 and Granada Boulevard across the Halifax River and Intracoastal Waterway in Ormond Beach, Florida. It links the mainland to the beach peninsula, and The Casements, City Hall Plaza, Fortunato Park and Riverbridge Park sit at its four corners. Bicycle lanes are marked on the shoulder of the span, with two pedestrian walkways at the far ends.
John Anderson and Joseph Price finished a wooden drawbridge here in 1887, beating Daytona across the Halifax River. Henry Flagler built a railroad spur bridge in 1905 and later adapted it for automobiles. A two-lane concrete bascule bridge opened on March 2, 1954, named the Rockefeller Memorial Bridge. The present four-lane span was completed in 1983; during construction a platform collapsed, killing one worker.
The bridge's four corners hold The Casements, City Hall Plaza, Fortunato Park and Riverbridge Park, whose collective name is used for the annual Four Corners Festival. The span also forms part of the Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail, a Florida Scenic Highway designated on July 9, 2007.
Bicycle lanes are marked on the shoulder of the span, and two pedestrian walkways sit at the far ends of the bridge. The crossing forms part of the Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail, a Florida Scenic Highway designated on July 9, 2007. The bridge carries four lanes of State Road 40 and Granada Boulevard between the mainland and the beach peninsula.
In July 1997 a kitten named Lucky fell from a truck on the bridge, then fell off the bridge itself, breaking a leg and suffering acute kidney failure. Rescued from a barnacle-covered piling by the U.S. Department of Transportation, he was renamed Timmy after public donations paid for a kidney transplant.
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