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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.
Bridge–tunnel Completion Country Location Body/ies of water Notes Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel: 1957/1976 United States Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia Hampton Roads: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel: 1964/1999/2030s United States Virginia Beach and Northampton County, Virginia Chesapeake Bay: Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel: 1967 Canada
Colonial Parkway, Williamsburg Tunnel 1949 1988 Colonial Parkway: Colonial Williamsburg: Williamsburg: Independent city: VA-119: Skyline Drive, Marys Rock Tunnel: 1932 1996 Skyline Drive: Mary's Rock: Luray: Rappahannock County
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. [1] It is overseen by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission, and operates the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel between the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions of the state. The District comprises six cities, Virginia Beach ...
In the U.S. state of Virginia, US 13 runs north–south through the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions of the state, using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel to get between the two. In the Hampton Roads area, it uses Military Highway to bypass the city centers. It is most usually a four-lane highway, sometimes up to freeway or expressway ...
Blackford Bridge: 1889 2010-06-24 Lebanon vicinity: Russell: Bob White Covered Bridge: 1820, 1821 1973-05-22 Woolwine: Patrick: Burr arch truss: Bowstring Truss Bridge (Ironto, Virginia) 1878 2013-01-02 Ironto
In 1957, the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel was the first bridge-tunnel complex in the world, to be followed by the area's much longer Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in 1963. In the 1960s, the first astronauts of Project Mercury trained at the NASA facility adjacent to Hampton's Langley Air Force Base.
It continues through the Hampton Roads area on the Military Highway and continues north to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, which the route uses to continue across the Chesapeake Bay to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Here, US 13 is the main north–south route of the region and connects to most cities and towns with four more business routes ...