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"At its opening in 1964, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was named one of the ""Five Wonders of the Modern World"" by Reader's Digest magazine. It was the culmination of a concerted, decade-long push by a group of men, led by Lucius J. Kellam Jr., an Eastern Shore native and businessman who dreamed of opening up the remote Eastern Shore to the bustling Virginia mainland. This $200-million, 17.6-mile-long series of bridges, tunnels, islands, and trestle in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay--long dismissed as impractical and even impossible--won the attention of the world at its opening. It also brought an abrupt end to the ferry service that was long a cornerstone of the New York-to-Florida ""Ocean Highway,"" shuttling millions of cars between the Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads."

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"John Warren wrote the ""Road Warrior"" column for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, from 1999 to 2009. His reporting included transportation and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. He has also worked at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Warren lives with his family in Gloucester County, Virginia."

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