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I can help answer any tough questions you have. Thank you, talk soon! Very impressed with Melissa's attention to detail and amazing work ethic. Contact Melissa! Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Facts. By , in-house studies and projections and a comprehensive study conducted in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Transportation concluded that parallel bridges, trestles, and roadways would be needed by the year to meet future traffic demands and provide a safer crossing for travelers.
Beginning in , revenue bonds were sold to finance engineering, environmental and traffic studies. Sverdrup Civil, Inc. The project, which expanded the two-lane facility into four lanes, included expansion of toll plazas, trestles, bridges and roadways, and maintenance and repair on the original span.
The project did not include the expansion of the four manmade islands or additional tunnels. Tunnels will be constructed at a later date. The project, financed by monies from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District and through the sale of additional revenue bonds, was completed in April, No local, state or federal tax monies were utilized for the construction costs.
On May 21, , the Commission approved a resolution for the acceleration of the construction of the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project, with the recommendation that construction of the Project begin as early as financially practicable and utilize a Design-Build contracting model to maximize cost savings and to shorten the final delivery timeline.
For a chronological history of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, please click here. Adobe Acrobat Reader Required. Prior to the construction of the present bridge, and with the development of the motor vehicle, even the long trip around the northern head of the Bay shortened the old uncomfortable but slow daily trips of the river boats between the Eastern and Western Shores, separated as they are for miles by the Chesapeake Bay.
According to the early history of the State, a ferry plied the Bay between Kent Island and points at or near Annapolis, and recurring stories indicate that sketchy preliminary studies were made during the latter part of the 19th century to span the Bay by bridge.
The records show that in , coincident with the development of interurban trolley lines, there was a proposal by private capital interests to bridge the Bay, and although the proposal was endorsed by the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Baltimore, the project did not advance beyond a very preliminary stage.
In , private capital interests again considered the possibility of a double deck structure to carry both railroad and trolley lines across the bay. Again in , before revenue bond financing acquired its impetus after the depression of , private capital interests undertook preliminary studies to bridge the bay between Miller Island and Tolchester.
During the forty years prior to construction of the present bridge, while the river boats gave way to motor vehicles, it may be said that Bay ferries were used as temporary expedients until the hope of the years for a fixed bay crossing could be realized. Private interests operated the Bay ferries, one between Baltimore and Tolchester, another between Baltimore and Love Point and another between Annapolis and Matapeake and Claiborne.
The assets of the latter were taken over by the State Roads Commission of Maryland under an Act of Legislature of and the Annapolis-Matapeake Ferry, later the Sandy Point-Matapeake Ferry, was operated by the State until the time that the present bridge was opened to traffic.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Company, chartered by Maryland in , received legislative authority in to construct the Miller Island-Tolchester Bridge, and the Legislature in provided that the authority of the company would be null and void unless the Company should commence construction of the bridge within two years and complete its construction within five years from June 1, The company abandoned its efforts and its charter was annulled in Governor Ritchie meanwhile in had appointed a commission to study the problem of spanning the Bay through the revenue bond financing method.
By , the public demand for a Bay crossing became so great that the Legislature in created the Chesapeake Bay Authority, as a public body, with power to construct the Miller Island-Tolchester Bridge under the revenue bond financing method and with further powers to acquire the assets and franchises of the Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry Company. The Chesapeake Bay Authority, however, was abolished by the Legislature in The Legislature of Maryland in , during the administration of Governor Nice, authorized a comprehensive State plan for the construction of bridges or tunnels and gave authority to the State Roads Commission to issue revenue bonds of the State, payable solely from earnings to pay the cost of construction.
Under the authority of the Act, the State Roads Commission initiated studies for four principal crossings by bridge or tunnel. These studies were covered by the report entitled "Maryland's Primary Bridge Program" prepared for the Commission by J. Greiner Company in The Act of Congress, approved April 7, , authorized any two or more of the four crossings to be jointly financed by a single issue of revenue bonds to be serviced by the pooling of tolls, construction to be commenced within three years and to be completed within five years from April 7, Two of those structures, the Susquehanna River Bridge and the Potomac River Bridge, treated as a single project for financing purposes, were commenced in during the administration of Governor Nice and were completed in during the administration of Governor O'Conor.
During the administration of Governor Lane, the Legislature, at its General Session of , passed a comprehensive Act, amended at the Extraordinary Session of , providing an additional or alternative method for the construction and financing of bridges, tunnels and motorways under the revenue bond financing method. This Act authorized the State Roads Commission, upon determining to construct a Chesapeake Bay crossing from Sandy Point to Kent Island, to finance the same by the issuance of revenue bonds and to refund outstanding bonds on existing bridges whose tolls would be pooled with those from the Chesapeake Bay crossing.
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