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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]
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.
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 ...
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The Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) is a bi-state government agency of the U.S. states of Delaware and New Jersey established by an interstate compact in 1962. [2]The authority operates the Delaware Memorial twin suspension bridges, the Cape May-Lewes Ferry between Cape May, New Jersey, and Lewes, Delaware, the Forts Ferry Crossing, and the Salem County Business Center.
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