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Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
Photos
Photo taken by Tom Saunders, VDOT
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #255705
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under Hampton Roads on Hampton Roads Beltway/US60/I-64
- Location
- Hampton, Hampton, Virginia, and Newport News, Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Buil 1957 (WB), Built 1976 (EB)
- Builder
- - Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation of New York, New York
- Design
- Tunnel-Bridge combination
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 7,479.4 ft. (1.4 mi.)
Total length: 18,480.0 ft. (3.5 mi.)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.97251, -76.29954 (decimal degrees)
36°58'21" N, 76°17'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/384327/4092611 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Norfolk North
- Inventory numbers
- VA 20354 (Virginia bridge number)
BH 56507 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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I mentioned travelling over this combination of bridges and tunnels to my fiancee.She is scared to death of these bridges and tunnels.Funny that it doesn't bother me in the least.I actually find it fascinating.Just wouldn't want to be on the bridges when there's an accident.