NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — If you drive across the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, you can’t miss its $4 billion expansion, expected to be a game changer for transportation in the region and especially there, where traffic snarls remain a quality of life issue for the region’s drivers.
Ryan Banas, the HRBT expansion project director, gave 10 On Your Side an exclusive look inside the project. Banas is working with Virginia Department of Transportation’s Hampton Roads District Engineer Christopher Hall to ensure VDOT’s obligations and responsibilities are carried out and the project stays on track toward completion.
HRBT Expansion Project
“We like to refer to it as our eight-lane mega trestle,” Banas said at the south mega trestle. “The structure we’re standing on will support eight lanes of travel, four in either direction.”
It is sparkling with clean new concrete — so bright it can give you a sunburn from the sun’s reflection…