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42 MARYLAND MANUAL
the indiscriminate use of pesticides. The bumper crop of
war and post-war babies strained the State's school facili-
ties, and required an ever-increasing number of teachers
and many new buildings, a demand which only now is be-
ginning to taper off.
Transportation
With practically every family owning one or more auto-
mobiles and many cities and towns plagued with traffic and
parking problems, the State has been compelled to under-
take a gigantic road and bridge building program. A num-
ber of outstanding projects have already been completed.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge (renamed the William Preston
Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge in 1967) was completed in
1952 at a cost of $45,000,000. One of the largest con-
tinuous over-water steel structures in the world, it spans
4.35 miles of water. The suspension towers, which have a
total height of 354 feet, are 2922 1/2 feet apart and the span
between them affords a clearance height of 198 1/2 feet to
vessels passing up and down the Bay. The weekend traffic
jams caused in the summer by the overwhelming popularity
of Maryland's only ocean resort, Ocean City, led the Gen-
eral Assembly to authorize the construction of three addi-
tional crossings over the Chesapeake Bay. Work has already
begun on a bridge that will parallel the present structure
at an estimated cost of $96,580,000. At Ocean City, Route
90 connecting 62nd Street to Route 589 was opened to traffic
in August, 1971 with the expectation of reducing the flow
of motor vehicles in the downtown area. The new route
passes over new bridges crossing St. Martin's River and
Assawoman Bay.
Another remarkable engineering feat, the Baltimore Har-
bor Tunnel, was opened to traffic at midnight, November 29,
1957. Built at a cost of $130,000,000 it is 6,300 feet long
and has, in all, sixteen miles of approach expressways that
enable the motorist to speed rapidly through one of the
most highly congested areas of Baltimore. The tunnel also
has proven to be highly successful and bonds amounting to
$109,150,000 have already been issued to cover the cost of
an additional tunnel to be known as the Baltimore Harbor
Outer Tunnel. These facilities together with the Baltimore
Beltway, the Jones Falls Expressway and the Harrisburg
Expressway have the common purpose of speeding traffic
through, around and away from the city.
Our national capital has been linked to nearby Maryland
cities by dual highways which lead to Baltimore via the
Baltimore-Washington Expressway, to Annapolis via the
John Hanson Highway and to Frederick via the Washington
National Pike, one of the most beautiful highways in the

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