State System ......................................................... 26,946,762
Maintenance of Highways—State System...................... 5,916,137
Enforcement of Motor Vehicle Weight-and-Size

Limitations ........................................................... 300,000
County and Municipality Funds................................ 16,202.625

Total ............................................................$60,684,034

Appropriations—1958

Special Funds (including Federal Aid):
Sinking Fund Provision—State Highway Construction

Bonds ...............................................................$12,767,889
Construction of Primary and Secondary Highways—

State System ..................................................... 46,257,178
Maintenance of Highways—State System.................... 6,157,616
Enforcement of Motor Vehicle Weight-and-Size

Limitations ..................................................... 325,000
County and Municipality Funds.................................. 18,145,175

Total ..........................................................$83,652,858
Staff: 3,219

TOLL FACILITIES DEPARTMENT

Louis J. O'Donnell, Chief Administrative Officer
Johnson H. Webster, Chief Maintenance Officer
Superintendents of Bridges and Tunnels:
George W. Phillips, Chesapeake Bay Toll Bridge, Sandy

Point
Paul R. Harrison, Susquehanna River Toll Bridge,

Perryville

Elwood E. Schafer, Potomac River Toll Bridge, Newburg
Harry O. Britner, Williamsport Toll Bridge, Williamsport
Harbur Tunnel Plaza, Frankfurst at Childs Telephone: Curtis 7-7200

The State Roads Commission, through its Toll Facilities Depart-
ment, operates and maintains the four toll bridges indicated above.
The Patapsco Tunnel) under Baltimore's harbor, opened November
30, 1957 as a fifth project under supervision of this Department.
The four bridge projects yield an annual aggregate revenue of ap-
proximately $8,750,000, and the tunnel is expected to increase the
annual gross revenue to approximately $14,000,000 in the course of
the next several years.

The Administrative Offices, the accounting section and the main-
tenance division of the Department are centralized in the Adminis-
tration Building near the Fairfield portal of the Tunnel.

The Chesapeake Bay Toll Bridge is the third longest bridge in the
•world. It is composed of 123 spans and extends across 4.35 miles of
open water between Sandy Point on the western shore of Maryland
and a point near Stevensville on the eastern. The combined
length of the project, including roadway approaches, is 7.11 miles.
The traffic lanes between the suspension towers are 2,922 1/2 feet long
and 198% feet above water level; the suspension towers rise an ad-
ditional 155% feet to a total height of 354 feet. The Chesapeake Bay
Toll Bridge was opened to traffic on July 30, 1952. During the fiscal
year ended September 30, 1956, a total of 2,185,181 vehicles crossed