Veterans Bridge (Chesapeake, Virginia)

Veterans Bridge
Veterans Bridge
Coordinates	36°44′N 76°17′W / 36.74°N 76.29°W
Carries	four lanes of US 17
Crosses	Elizabeth River (Virginia)
Locale	Chesapeake, Virginia
Owner	City of Chesapeake
Characteristics
Design	fixed span
Longest span	2 x 285 feet (87 m)
Clearance below	95 feet (29 m)
History
Construction start	January 2013
Construction cost	$345.2 million USD
Opened	northbound span:; 2014; southbound span opening 2017;
Inaugurated	December 2014
Replaces	Dominion Boulevard Steel Bridge
Statistics
Toll	With EZ-Pass $1; Without: $3.50;
Location

The Veterans Bridge is a fixed span concrete bridge that spans the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in the Deep Creek neighborhood of Chesapeake in southeastern Virginia. The bridge, which partially open in 2014, currently carries two lanes of U.S. Route 17 (US 17; Dominion Blvd) across its northbound span. When the southbound span is completed in late-2017, the entire bridge will be four lanes. The corridor frequently acts as a bypass route for congested I-64 High Rise Bridge traffic.

It replaces the much shorter and smaller Dominon Boulevard Steel Bridge, which because of its 11-foot underwater clearance opened on average of 16 times per day.^[1]