Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel

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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. commonwealth of Virginia. It opened in 1964, replacing ferries that had operated since the 1930s. A major project to dualize its bridges was completed in 1999, and in 2017 a similar project was started to dualize one of its tunnels. With 12 miles (19 km) of bridges and two one-mile-long (1.6 km) tunnels, the CBBT is one of only 15 bridge–tunnel systems in the world and one of three in both Hampton Roads and the United States. It carries US 13, which saves motorists roughly 95 miles (153 km) and 1+1⁄2 hours on trips between Hampton Roads and the Philadelphia metropolitan area and points north compared with other routes through the Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area. As of January 2021, over 140 million vehicles have crossed the CBBT. The CBBT was built and is operated...

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