Twin trestle
Water transverse
Highway network
At the mouth of the James River, the Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel connects the independent Virginia cities of Newport News (north end) and Suffolk (south end). The bridge portion is 4.6 miles long crossing an impressive expanse of tidal water slowly flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.
“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” – John Ruskin