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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.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel: Virginia, USA: Connects Virginia Beach with the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Length refers to the tunnel section: 1.6 km: 1960–1964 Transbay Tube: San Francisco – Oakland, USA: Rail tunnel for Bay Area Rapid Transit. Connects Oakland to San Francisco. It is the longest underwater tunnel in North America: 5.8 km ...
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 States.
The Holland Tunnel was the first underwater tunnel designed for automobiles. Atlantic Avenue tunnels on Long Island Rail Road: Abandoned Cobble Hill Tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn; Current Atlantic Branch tunnels under Atlantic Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn and Queens
Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia Hampton Roads: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel: 1964 United States Virginia Beach and Northampton County, Virginia Chesapeake Bay: Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel: 1967 Canada Montreal (Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve), and Longueuil, Quebec: Saint Lawrence River: bridge–tunnel transition uses natural ...
A contractor working on a $25 million tunnel that will connect Virginia's Capitol to a nearby legislative office building “inadvertently” poked through the ceiling of a subterranean Capitol ...
The Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel (MMMBT) is the 4.6-mile-long (7.4 km) Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 664 (I-664) in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States. It is a four-lane bridge–tunnel composed of bridges , trestles, artificial islands , and tunnels under a portion of the Hampton Roads harbor where ...
From that 2.5-inch hole on the outside edge of the tunnel, water was able to get into the south tube via the ventilation ducts, the spokesperson said, and leak onto cars passing through.