In the next year or two, the seabed between Hampton and Norfolk will start to change. Mud and sand will slowly move as a custom-built boring machine tunnels alongside the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.Travelers funneling through the existing HRBT may not notice the adjacent construction just on the other side of the tunnel wall.
Cargo ships and Navy vessels, carrying thousands of containers and sailors, may pass over the project’s construction completely undisturbed.And that’s the way Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization officials want it to stay.It is something we’re really proud of,” said Robert Crum, executive director for the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization.
Totaling about $3.8 billion, the HRBT expansion project is the largest in the history of Virginia, and one of the largest currently in the country.But the critical project — aimed at reducing chronic congestion both eastbound and westbound in the existing tunnels — also slips directly beneath one of the East Coast’s largest shipping and Naval channels.
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