The bridge-and-tunnel system crosses the lower Chesapeake Bay, connecting Virginia’s Eastern Shore with the mainland in ...

“They’re driving down a ring,” said Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Executive Director of Infrastructure Mike Crist. Unlike previous projects ... closest to Virginia Beach, about 70 feet ...

BY STEFANIE BOWMANN, Eastern Shore Post Just as the tunnel boring machine nicknamed “Chessie” performed its work on the ...

Following its opening in 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was selected as "One of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World" in a worldwide competition that included more than 100 major projects.