Work on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge starts this week, with several lane closures and new traffic patterns in effect until Aug.

Since it opened in 1965, more than 67 million vehicles have crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. One artificial island actually has a gift shop, restrooms, and a parking lot to allow drivers ...

Approximately ten miles away, as the seagull flies, the 308-ft-long earth pressure balance machine Chessie mined more than 6,300 ft for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel’s new parallel tube at ...

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is on that list. “We expect a collision once every 86 years by our estimation and that’s higher than we’d like it to be,” lead researcher Michael Shields said.

As of 8:15pm, on Sunday, July 6th, the Maryland Transportation Authority reports that delays on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge are about 13.7 miles on the westbound span.

The Maryland Transportation Authority entered into a $600,000 contract in April 2024 with a company to conduct a vulnerability study on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, 11 News Investigates has learned.

Each year, there is a Great Chesapeake Bay Swim, which is a 4.4-mile open-water swim across the bay and a Bay Bridge Run across the bridge.