TOLL FACILITIES DIVISION

Louis J. O'Donnell, Chief
Johnson H. Webster, Chief, Maintenance Bureau

Superintendents of Bridges:
George W. Phillips, Chesapeake Bay Toll Bridge, Sandy

Point, Maryland
Paul R. Harrison, Susquehanna River Toll Bridge, Perry-

ville, Maryland

Elwood E. Schafer, Potomac River Toll Bridge, Newburg,
Maryland

Harbor Tunnel Plaza, Frankfurst at Childs Telephone: 355-3500

The State Roads Commission, through its Toll Facilities Division,
operates and maintains the three major toll bridges indicated above
and the Harbor Tunnel Thruway (Patapsco Tunnel, under Baltimore's
harbor) which was opened to traffic on November 30, 1957. Currently,
the four projects handle approximately 31,500,000 toll transactions
annually and produce revenue of more than $17,000,000 which is util-
ized for debt service after deduction of maintenance and operating
costs.

The administrative offices and the accounting and maintenance
bureaus of this Department are centralized in the Administration
Building adjacent to the Fairfield Portal of the Tunnel.

The Chesapeake Bay Toll Bridge is one of the largest over-water
structures in the world. It is composed of 123 spans extending across
4.35 miles of the Chesapeake Bay between Sandy Point on the Western
shore to a point near Stevensville on the Eastern shore of Maryland.
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 in length and 198 1/2 feet above water level; the suspension towers
rise an additional 155 1/2 feet above the Bay to a total height of 354
feet. This bridge was opened to traffic on July 30, 1952. It is located on
two of the principal motor arteries, U. S. 301 and U. S. 50.

The Susquehanna River Toll Bridge spans the Susquehanna River
from a point near Ferryville in Cecil County to a point near Havre de
Grace in Harford County. It is 7,613 feet long and was opened to
traffic on August 28, 1940. It is on another main highway, U. S. 40.

The Potomac River Toll Bridge, from a point near Newburg in
Charles County Maryland, to a point near Dahlgren, Virginia, over
the Potomac River, is 11,446 feet in length and was opened to traffic
on December 15, 1940. It is on U. S. 301.

The Harbor Tunnel Thruway, opened to traffic on November 30,
1957, provides a North-South by-pass of the City of Baltimore as well
as rapid motor transit from one area of the City to another. In addi-
tion to the twin tunnels under the Patapsco River, which are 1.7 miles
in length, it has approximately 18 miles of access roads and approaches
usable only by Tunnel patrons. These access roads, in addition to con-
necting with principal traffic arteries in the City, provide a link
between such through routes as U. S. 40 North and U. S. 40 West, the
Washington Expressway, and immediate connections to U.S. 1 North
and South, and to U. S. 301 South.