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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. Spanning the Chesapeake Bay , it connects the state's rural Eastern Shore region with its urban and suburban Western Shore, running between Stevensville and Sandy ...
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, connecting the eastern and western shores of Maryland was completed in 1952. Length of the suspension span is 2,922 feet and the roadway is about 200 feet above water at ...
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.
A suicide bridge is a bridge used frequently by people to end their lives, most typically by jumping off and into the water or ground below.A fall from the height of a tall bridge into water may be fatal, although some people have survived jumps from high bridges such as the Golden Gate Bridge. [1]
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (eastern span) San Francisco Bay: 2013: California: 190 ft (57.9 m) Hawk Falls Bridge [16] Mud Run: 1957: Pennsylvania: Union Pacific Kate Shelley Bridge: Des Moines River: 2009: Iowa: 186 ft (56.7 m) Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge: Cooper River: 2005: South Carolina: Chesapeake Bay Bridge (dual spans) Chesapeake ...
The bridge served as part of MD 2 and later US 50 after the later route was extended across the Chesapeake Bay. (This original bridge was replaced with the current Naval Academy Bridge in 1994.) When the John Hanson Highway was built, the current Severn River Bridge was built to carry it across the river.