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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 ...
A map of Kent Island from 1970. As roads replaced railroads and steamboats into the twentieth century, there was a growing need for a road bridge connecting the two shores of the Chesapeake Bay. In 1952 the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was completed, connecting the island directly to the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The bridge completely ...
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 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 exceptions include the Governor Harry W. Nice Bridge across the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge across the Chesapeake Bay and the respective bridges' approach roads and toll plazas, which are maintained by the Maryland Transportation Authority. [1] US 301 is a part of the National Highway System for its entire length. [1] [6]
After crossing the Chesapeake Bay on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, US 50/US 301 head onto Kent Island in Queen Anne's County, entering the Eastern Shore region of the state. The road continues east as the Blue Star Memorial Highway, a six-lane freeway, and passes through an eastbound all-electronic toll gantry before maintenance returns to the ...
A short distance past the US 60 interchange, US 13 comes to a northbound toll plaza for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel. From here, the route heads onto the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel complex that carries US 13 across the Chesapeake Bay. The road leaves the mainland of Virginia Beach and heads over ...
By 1946, the route's western terminus was moved to MD 2 north of Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, crossing the Chesapeake Bay on the Sandy Point–Matapeake ferry, roughly where the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is now, and continuing west through Skidmore to MD 2. This extension of MD 404 replaced the portion of MD 179 leading to Skidmore. [9]