The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bay Bridge, Annapolis, MD

I've driven over that bridge a few times en route to Chincoteague! Beautiful footage including the aerial footage of the highway going underwater! Jazzy music too! :)

Nice shots. The Bay Bridge in Annapolis is a separate bridge.

I’m scared as heck on this bridge. I can’t drive across it!

You have to put low level trestle to support the weight of the bridge and roadway into the Chesapeake Bay but if you didn't the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel would collapse into the Chesapeake Bay and that would be very costly to replace. fortunately the whole project went pretty smoothly except for a few hiccups that destroyed the Big D with a big storm the crew that were making the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel had to quickly make new Big D from its sisters. Eventually they opened the first span to traffic but they soon realized they needed a new span to handle more traffic flow. In 1995 they started building the second parallel crossing and that span opened to traffic on April 19th 1999.

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Your correct on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Annapolis Maryland being William Preston Lane Jr Memorial Bay Bridge. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel and it's very long. The Tunnel parts are very unique in design they were fabricated in a small Texas nearly a long ways away and then they were floating to Norfork to be fitted with concrete and a roadway slab. It's a pretty complicated process to make the Bridge tunnel complex.

Did the drive last summer in my 8+ wide motor home.
The tunnels where very scary and look dangerous with large on coming 18 wheelers. No mirrors hit , Yea
My wife covered her eyes till we where out then a SECOND TUNNEL!!!!!

I’m not familiar with this bridge so can you tell me why it goes underwater in places?