Chesapeake Bay Bridges
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| Connecting Eastern and Western Shores of Maryland, the first bridge across the Bay was completed in 1952. The parallel span, scheduled to open in mid-1973, will eliminate a traffic bottleneck by permitting one-way operation on each bridge. Overwater length -- 5 miles. Suspension span length -- 2,922 feet, height of roadway -- about 200 feet |
