These factors include calcium intake, seasonal variations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, sun exposure, air pollution levels, exercise, obesity (resistance to standard doses of vitamin D), comorbid conditions, and medications.
FDOT estimates that the 55,000 cars per day cross the three-mile long bridge connecting Pensacola and Gulf Breeze, and that the number will be exceed 70,000 by 2040. The bridge was built in the 1960s and a 2009 federal survey declared the bridge was in need of replacement.
Tolls increased to $2.50 in June 2001 and to $3.00 in 2004. These increases stymied traffic counts, which were recorded at just 3,844 vpd in 2011. The northernmost extent of the Garcon Point Bridge curves southwesterly initially from just east of Hernandez Point for the trek across Pensacola Bay.