The I-280 Veterans’ Glass City Skyway is a landmark for Toledo and allows traffic to move efficiently and rapidly through downtown on I-280, while local traffic uses the former Interstate bascule bridge.

This new concrete cable-stayed bridge established many “firsts”, including the first use of an innovative stay cable cradle system, the first use of stainless steel as sheathing material on the stays, the first use of glass on a bridge pylon, and the largest cable stays ever used on a bridge (156 strands). The new cradle system eliminates the need for anchorages in the pylon, which reduces construction costs, allows for an increase in the size of stay cables, and simplifies long term maintenance as strands may be removed, inspected, and replaced as the bridge carries traffic.

During community design charettes the participants expressed a strong desire to honor the city's rich industrial heritage in glass production. Thus, the top 196’ of the pylon is faced in LED back-lit glass.

The project encompasses 1.25 million square feet of bridge, approaches, ramps, and gore areas and stretches across 2.5 miles of urban environment