[HN Gopher] Building the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (2014)
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Building the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (2014)
Author : js2
Score : 31 points
Date : 2024-03-27 16:55 UTC (2 days ago)
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| pfdietz wrote:
| This is not to be confused with the older Chesapeake Bay Bridge
| that crosses the bay just south of Baltimore, across to Kent
| Island (or another bridge built right next to it.)
| JAM1971 wrote:
| I've been across the both. They are not the same!
| jacoblambda wrote:
| Yeah I always think of the older bridge as "the bay bridge"
| from the time I spent in the Annapolis area.
| jwnin wrote:
| A project is underway to add a 2nd tunnel using a tunnel border.
| This increases the effective width from one to two lanes of
| traffic in each direction; four total lanes between the two
| tunnels. The borer moves 50-60 feet per day; at this rate they
| expect to finish the boring process in a year.
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| https://www.cbbt.com/tunnel-project/
| softwaredoug wrote:
| They had a bike/pedestrian day after completing the second span
| about 15-20 years ago. I wish they did that more often, or hosted
| some kind of marathon. Seems like a fun idea.
| bts89 wrote:
| They have a Chesapeake Bay Bridge walk/run every year. It
| should probably be noted that it's not the same bridge as the
| Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel that this post is about.
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| The Chesapeake Bay Bridge connects Annapolis with Kent Island,
| while the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel connects the southern
| tip of Virginia's eastern shore with Norfolk, VA.
| js2 wrote:
| I've been driving my family to Long Island from NC every year for
| Thanksgiving for the past 20 years. A few years into this, I got
| really tired of taking I-95, especially once you get north of
| Richmond. So I started looking into alternate routes and instead
| of I-95 all the way, we cut over to Norfolk from I-95 at Emporia,
| then take the CBBT to the Delmarva Peninsula, up to Lewes, DE,
| the Cape May ferry to the Garden State parkway to Staten Island,
| then across the Verrazzano to Long Island.
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| Other than one year when a deer jumped out in front of me on the
| GSP, it's a much more pleasant and relaxing trip than I-95, and
| it's nice to have the ferry ride to break things up.
|
| Anyway, that's how I discovered the CBBT in the first place and
| it's always been a fun part of the (580'ish mi / 930'ish km)
| trip.
| trackofalljades wrote:
| Make sure you stop at Stingray's! We drive a very similar route
| annually and it's amazing (super fun place for kids too).
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| https://maps.app.goo.gl/fcCBmm1uMtzp4asT8
| mparis wrote:
| I grew up in Virginia Beach and we used to talk about this bridge
| as one of the modern wonders of the world. They shut the bridge
| down for a day many years ago and my family and I were able to
| ride across it on bikes. Awesome experience.
| COGlory wrote:
| When I was in college I went on a family vacation where we
| crossed the CBBT. I remember I had an early Android phone acting
| as a hotspot and I was trying to play multiplayer Minecraft on my
| laptop. It worked well up until the first tunnel portion, at
| which point signal dropped out, and I decided to actually pay
| attention to my surroundings. (To be clear, I was not the one
| driving)
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| I've been over and under this a few times in my life, and it
| truly is a modern marvel.
|
| https://www.cbbt.com/
| pugworthy wrote:
| I'm struck by the language of the article. Quite the manly story
| of mainly men doing man things with machines.
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