Author : John Warren
Release : 2015-08-31
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel write by John Warren. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At its opening in 1964, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was named one of the "Five Wonders of the Modern World" by Reader's Digest magazine. It was the culmination of a concerted, decade-long push by a group of men, led by Lucius J. Kellam Jr., an Eastern Shore native and businessman who dreamed of opening up the remote Eastern Shore to the bustling Virginia mainland. This $200-million, 17.6-mile-long series of bridges, tunnels, islands, and trestle in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay - long dismissed as impractical and even impossible - won the attention of the world at its opening. It also brought an abrupt end to the ferry service that was long a cornerstone of the New York-to-Florida "Ocean Highway," shuttling millions of cars between the Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads.