(DOWNLOAD) "Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel" by John Warren " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
- Author : John Warren
- Release Date : January 31, 2015
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Professional & Technical,Engineering,Travel & Adventure,Specialty Travel,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 25916 KB
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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.