How much did Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel cost to build?
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is the 17.6 mile crossing from shore to shore between Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, opened on 15 April 1964 and expanded to four lanes by the Phase I parallel crossing of 1999. The PBS Building Big databank gives its cost as 200 million dollars, and the district's own history says the commission sold 200 million dollars of revenue bonds in 1960 and awarded the parallel crossing contract of 197,185,777 dollars on 4 May 1995.
Reported project cost
$200 million
Cost basis: 1964
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost1964
Project metrics
Key dimensions
- Total lengthWGBH / PBS Building Big
- 28.325 km
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