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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.
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 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).
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.
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 Great Bridge Bridge is a double-leaf rolling bascule drawbridge that carries Battlefield Blvd (State Route 168 Business) across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Chesapeake, Virginia. [1] [2] It was constructed in 2004 by the Army Corps of Engineers and operated by the City of Chesapeake .
Virginia DOT Bridge No. 6023: Extant Pratt truss: 1902 1994 SR 646: Norfolk Southern Railway: Nokesville: Prince William: VA-110: Virginia DOT Bridge No. 6051: Extant Pratt truss: 1889 1994 SR 673 (Featherbottom Road) Catoctin Creek: Waterford: Loudoun
Two people are dead after they were thrown over a Virginia bridge in a motorcycle crash, news outlets reported. The crash happened around 8 a.m. Dec. 31 on the West Norfolk Bridge in Portsmouth ...