Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel celebrates 60 years since opening to traffic

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Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel celebrates 60 years since opening to traffic

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Sixty years ago Monday, the engineering marvel that is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel opened to commuters. Before the bridge, the only way to get across the water was by ferry. It's something Lucius Kellam III remembers well. His father, Lucius J. Kellam Jr., owned a small oil and propane business on the Eastern Shore. He was instrumental in the creation of the bridge. "For whatever reason he had this vision that th…