The Virginia Dept. of Transportation has revised its schedule for the $3.9-billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion, pushing the projected substantial completion date back by 18 months, to February 2027.
Begun in November 2020, the project to increase the capacity of the key crossing beneath the main channel of one of the nation’s busiest harbors has experienced “unforeseen cost and schedule impacts,” according to a VDOT statement. The project calls for augmenting the existing 7,500-ft-long immersed steel tunnels carrying Interstate 64 traffic with two new 45-ft-dia. tubes that will double the number of lanes from four to eight. The ten-mile project corridor connecting the cities of Hampton and Norfolk also includes 14,000 ft of new marine bridges, replacement of more than two dozen existing bridge structures and lane additions.