connecting Virginia’s Eastern Shore with the mainland in Virginia Beach. The Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel project involves ...

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project has reached a major breakthrough by boring the first-ever Virginia tunnel. Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has arrived at the North ...

BY STEFANIE BOWMANN, Eastern Shore Post Just as the tunnel boring machine nicknamed “Chessie” performed its work on the ...

“It’s tight in here, huh? I didn’t realize the diameter of the tunnel when I signed up for this job,” joked Jesus Moreno, the project’s tunnel inspector. “Another two feet would have ...