{"id":166208,"date":"2026-02-23T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:34:08","slug":"bayside-bridge-to-take-on-new-name-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166208\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayside Bridge to take on new name Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Bayside Bridge officially gets a new name on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The county is renaming the bridge the Dillinger McCabe Bayside Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The new name is in honor of long-time public defender Bob Dillinger and long-time state attorney Bernie McCabe.<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County commissioners approved the name change in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/pinellas\/2026\/01\/20\/bayside-bridge-bob-dillinger-bernie-mccabe-public-defender-state-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to our newsgathering partners at the Tampa Bay Times<\/a>, Commissioner Chris Latvala pursued the name change after Dillinger&#8217;s death in 2024, and that his wife supported the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Bayside Bridge officially gets a new name on Tuesday. The county is renaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,2173,2200,115,596,275,135,137,136,278,729],"class_list":["post-166208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}