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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.
Bay Bridge (US 50/301) Lane Closures and Traffic Patterns Scheduled for the Week of November 17 – 23, 2024 All work will be performed weather permitting. The MDTA urges motorists to drive with caution and obey all traffic-control devices and lane-control signals. Headlights are required at all times on the bridge. Lane closures are subject to change and closure times are dependent on traffic ...
Imagine a 10-lane Chesapeake Bay Bridge, getting motorists to and from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A bridge that big is on the table.
The Maryland Transportation Authority has recommended knocking down both the eastbound and westbound spans of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and replacing them with new, potentially wider, spans. The ...
Relying on an aging, over-congested Bay Bridge for Maryland’s only Chesapeake Bay crossing has grown into a more pressing problem each year. Back in 2017, the Maryland Transportation Administration (MDTA) launched the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Crossing Study to look at a possible new Bay crossing solution. Any project seeking federal approval or ...
The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) has been diving into plans to replace the aging spans of the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge with two shiny new spans in the same area.
The world's largest continuous over-water steel structure when it opened in 1952, the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge provides a structural link that did not exist in the days when colonial Marylanders traveled by boat, with the Chesapeake Bay as their highway.
At the Bay Bridge, tolls are collected in the eastbound direction only. Vehicles carrying Class 1 explosives and radioactive materials require an escort to cross the Bay Bridge. For additional information regarding these restrictions, please call 410-537-6601.
Maryland’s first settlements developed beside the Bay and along the rivers flowing into the waterway. According to Maryland State Archives records, the Chesapeake was the early colonists’. There are recurring stories that, in the 1880s, preliminary studies explored building a bridge across the Bay.