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Originally, a two-lane highway tunnel was considered, but the costs for a four-lane bridge was found to be equivalent in price, therefore being the reason a four-lane bridge was chosen. Congress approved the bridge project on July 13, 1946, and its construction began on February 1, 1949.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Replacement, San Francisco/Oakland, California: 1988–2002 $5.0 billion [5] Mon–Fayette Expressway, southwest Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia: 2012–2019 $4.25 billion Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, Seattle, Washington: 2005–2020 (est.) $4.1 billion (est.) [6]
In 1937, Sussex County and the rest of Delaware were mired in the Great Depression, and Meigs told the Rotary club, “One-third of the $10,000,000 cost of the project will be paid out in wages ...
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia. It opened in 1964, replacing ferries that had operated since the 1930s.
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This is a list of bridges, ferries, and other crossings of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from the Atlantic Ocean upstream to the confluence of the East Branch and West Branch at Hancock, New York. There are no tunnels under the Delaware (excepting utilities), and no dams crossing the full width of its main stem.
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Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge: Taunton River: 1965: Massachusetts: Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge: Delaware River: 1956: Pennsylvania / New Jersey: Girard Point Bridge [27] Schuylkill River: 1985: Pennsylvania: Gold Star Memorial Bridge (dual spans) Thames River: 1943 / 1973: Connecticut: Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge ...