Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
Posted on 06/24/2024 8:12:36 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
Traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is temporarily suspended late Monday morning as the Dali — a cargo ship that collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, leading to its collapse — makes its journey to port in Norfolk, Virginia.
The Maryland Transport Authority (MDTA) said that traffic is temporarily paused on the Bay Bridge, as of 11 a.m.
In an earlier statement, the Maryland Transport Authority (MDTA) said that “out of an abundance of caution,” it would be holding traffic on the Bay Bridge on Monday between 11 a.m. and noon as the marine vessel Dali passes beneath. The hold is expected to last 15-30 minutes.
Officials said the decision was made “in consultation with the U.S. Coast Guard” and that four tug boats are accompanying the Dali to provide anchoring support on its way to Norfolk.
The 984-foot Dali started moving shortly before 8:30 a.m. with four tugboats. It is headed to Norfolk for the removal of the remaining containers on the vessel and additional repairs.
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So now they are suspending traffic and blaming it on the Dalai Lama? I didn’t even read the article just the headline. That’s enough to make me ill.
Is this the Bay Bridge that has a tunnel?
If so, that is beyond an abundance of caution.
That’s the one that goes partially under water so ships can pass above it....A little off topic but I was born in New Port News Va. and we lived there for 6 years. Traveling that bridge/tunnel on many occasions, to this day I still remember going through the tunnel section and seeing water leaking down the tunnel walls......although my dad explained it was designed to do that, even at my young age I remember thinking that just ain’t right. 😏
No - this is the Bay Bridge just east of Annapolis. No tunnel. You’re thinking of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel down near Hampton Roads.
What road? That's really the Key to this story.
Yes. He’s in town and they’ll greet him with the traditional “Hello, Dalai!”
This is the Bay Bridge. Should be plural, as there are two entirely separate spans. It carries US Highway 50 across the Chesapeake Bay between Annapolis and Kent Island, and it has no tunnel sections.
The only bridge/tunnel complex that crosses the Chesapeake Bay is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, which carries US Highway 13 between Norfolk and Cape Charles at the mouth of the bay.
The bridge/tunnel complexes around Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News cross either Hampton Roads or the Elizabeth River. They Carry Interstate Highways 64, 664, and 265, and US Highway 58.
Back in the 1970s, I read a bit in National Review that the IRS had attempted to collect several years’ worth of unpaid personal income taxes from Miss Elizabeth R. Tunnel of Norfolk, Virginia. The Virginia Department of Transportation was eventually able to convince the IRS that the Elizabeth River Tunnel, being a piece of highway infrastructure, was not liable for personal income tax ...
Excuse me ... that’s Interstate 264 ...
Nice pictures ... Second one is the southern tunnel section on the CBBT.
People familiar with it will know how I know ...
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It’s actually the ‘Gov. William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge’; but nobody calls it that. Probably few remember.
Stupid. Lets stop traffic on every bridge this ship comes across. An abundance of caution for the chillins.
I’ve taken that tunnel a few times. It’s kind of creepy when you’re about to go under, and you see a ship like that fixing to cross right in front of and over you.
Bad ship!! Evil ship!! CLOSE THE BRIDGE and don’t give it another chance to kill another bridge!! In fact, ALWAYS close any bridges for one full hour before and after a passage beneath!!!! You never know!!
(What’s a transit take? Maybe ten minutes?)
Morons.
Absurd!
The first time I flew into Norfolk, we were arriving at dusk and I could see lines of traffic with their headlights on. All of a sudden, the cars in one line of traffic would disappear as the cars moved forward and I could not figure out what happened to them. I have made several trips to Norfolk since then, and many times was stuck in tunnel traffic.
No. It’s in Annapolis MD.
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