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E-ZPass. Location. 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.
James River Bridge. / 36.9910; -76.4836. The James River Bridge ( JRB) is a four-lane divided highway lift bridge across the James River in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation, it carries U.S. Route 17 (US 17), US 258, and State Route 32 across the river near its mouth at Hampton Roads.
The Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel ( HRBT) is a 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 64 (I-64) and US Route 60 (US 60). It is a four-lane facility comprising bridges, trestles, artificial islands, and tunnels under the main shipping channels for Hampton Roads harbor in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United ...
The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore is a shipping port along the tidal basins of the three branches of the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland, on the upper northwest shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It is the nation's largest port facility for specialized cargo ( roll-on/roll-off ships) and passenger facilities.
June 24, 2024 at 7:26 PM. The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s ...
On February 24, 1977, the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge was the scene of a spectacular and costly accident. A small, ocean-going, WWII-surplus tanker ship, the 5,700 ton, 523-ft long SS Marine Floridian, was eastbound, heading downriver from Allied Signal Corp. in Hopewell, Virginia. Once underway and only a short distance from the Benjamin ...
The bridge is the largest double-swing-span bridge in the United States, and second largest in the world. [1] [2] The toll bridge was named for George P. Coleman, who from 1913 to 1922 was the head of the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation, predecessor to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).
Only historic covered bridge remaining in Patrick County. Link Farm: Giles: Newport: 1912 49 Sinking Creek: Narrowest covered bridge in Virginia at 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. Privately owned. Meems Bottom: Shenandoah: Mount Jackson: 1894 204 North Fork of the Shenandoah River: Currently the longest covered bridge in Virginia. Burned down on October ...