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Coordinates: 38°59′30″N76°22′20″W38.99167°N 76.37222°W. Not to be confused with Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel. The Gov. William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge (informally called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and, locally, the Bay Bridge) is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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.
The bridge-tunnel complex is 17.6 miles (28 km) long from shore to shore and consists mostly of low trestle bridges carrying a two-lane highway. Because of the importance of shipping in the bay, the crossing was sunk deep beneath the main shipping channels in tunnels at two points, each tunnel being more than 1 mile (1.6 km) long.
A timelapse of an eastbound trip over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. With shore-to-shore lengths of 3.83 and 4.03 miles (6.16 and 6.49 km), [3] [21] the two spans of the bridge form the longest fixed water crossing in Maryland. [22]
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge was opened on July 30th, 1952 and a second span added in 1973, serving as a vital 4.3-mile link between Baltimore, Washington D.C., Annapolis, and Atlantic coastal...
The bridge spans 4.3 miles and has a capacity for 1,500 vehicles per lane, per hour. Annual traffic on the bridge is estimated to exceed 27 million vehicles. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built in 1949-1952 under the leadership of Governor William Preston Lane, Jr.
Length: 89,760 feet (total length); 79,200 feet (bridge length) Type: Beam, tunnel. Purpose: Roadway. Materials: Steel, concrete. Longest Single Span: 100 feet. Engineer (s): Sverdrup & Parcel.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) connects the Virginia mainland at the city of Virginia Beach directly with the Delmarva Peninsula.
Overall Length. Shore-to-shore, including causeway: 4.35 miles (east-bound), 4.33 miles (westbound)
The bridge-tunnel complex is 17.6 miles long from shore to shore, and it cuts 95 miles from the journey between Virginia Beach and points north of Wilmington, Delaware. Click photo. for...