to the overall functioning of the Administration. It
includes the Communications, Print Shop, and
Mail sections.

DIVISION OF FISCAL AFFAIRS

Richard J. Piekarski, Director
Telephone: 768-7211

The Division is responsible for accounting, aud-
its, cash receipts, and payroll.

MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION
AUTHORITY

Chairperson: William K. Hellmann, Secretary of
Transportation

Ronald L. Freeland, 1985; William B. Wheeler,
1985; Arthur M. Gompf, 1986; Louise P.
Hoblitzell, 1986; Daniel F. McMullen III, 1987;
W. Gordon Yates, 1987.

Executive Secretary: Gary A. Smith

P. 0. Box 9088
Dundalk 21222 Telephone: 288-6400
TTY for the Deaf: 1-800-^92^575

The Transportation Authority operates and
maintains four toll bridges, the Baltimore Harbor
Tunnel (under Baltimore's harbor), and the John
F. Kennedy Memorial Highway. These facilities
were constructed with proceeds from the sale of
revenue bonds authorized under the Revenue Bond
Act of 1937 (Code 1957, Article 89B, secs.
163-181), and by Chapter 1, Acts of the Special
Session of 1956 (Code 1957, Article 89B, secs.
141-162A). The Authority will also operate the I-
95 Fort McHenry Tunnel, scheduled to open at the
end of 1985.

The Maryland Transportation Authority is the
public body that governs and sets policy for the
State's toll projects. The Authority was created by
Chapter 526, Acts of 1970. It consists of the
Secretary as chairperson and six public members
appointed for three-year terms by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Senate (Code
Transportation Article, secs. 4-201 through
4-404).

Day-to-day management, operation, mainte-
nance, and capital improvements of the toll facili-
ties are carried out by the Authority's staff and
employees. The administrative offices, central sup-
ply depot, and maintenance activities of these
facilities are centralized at the Francis Scott Key
Bridge over Baltimore's outer harbor. The Francis
Scott Key Bridge was opened to traffic in March of

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1977 and connects Sellers Point in Baltimore
County with Hawkins Point in Baltimore City. It
also is the final link in the 52-mile Baltimore
Beltway (Route 695).

The William Preston Lane, Jr., Memorial Bridge
is one of the longest over-water steel structures in
the world. It spans 4.35 miles of the Chesapeake
Bay between Sandy Point on the Western Shore to
a point near Stevensville on the Eastern Shore.
Traffic lanes between the suspension towers are
2,922-1/2 feet in length and 198-1/2 feet above
the Bay. The Bridge rises to a total height of 354
feet. This span was opened to traffic on July 30,
1952. At the request of the General Assembly, the
State Roads Commission in 1967 renamed the
Chesapeake Bay Toll Bridge the William Preston
Lane, Jr., Memorial Bridge (Res. No. 21, Acts of
1967).

In 1968, Bridge and Tunnel Revenue Bonds were
issued to construct a parallel bridge across the
Chesapeake Bay, a crossing of the Patapsco River
(Baltimore Outer Harbor) from Hawkins Point to
Sparrows Point, and a connection on the Harbor
Tunnel Thruway between U.S. Route 1 and Inter-
state Route 95 near Elkridge. On June 28, 1973,
the parallel Bay Bridge was opened to traffic.

The Susquehanna River Toll Bridge spans the
Susquehanna River from a point near Perryville,
Cecil County, to a point near Havre de Grace,
Harford County. It is 1.4 miles and was opened to
traffic on August 28, 1940.

The Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge
across the Potomac River in Charles County was
opened to traffic in December of 1940. It is on U.S.
301 between Maryland and Virginia. Originally
named the Potomac River Toll Bridge, the 1.7 mile
structure was renamed the Governor Harry W.
Nice Memorial Bridge in 1967 by the State Roads
Commission.

The Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and its eighteen-
mile thruway opened to traffic on November 30,
1957. It provides a major north-south bypass of
Baltimore City, and is designated 1-895.

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway (for-
merly Northeastern Expressway) was constructed
with revenue bond proceeds authorized by Chapter
1, Acts of the Special Session of 1956 (Code 1957,
Article 89B, secs. 141-162A). This toll road, a part
of Interstate Route 95, was opened to traffic on
November 14, 1963. Its forty-two miles extend
from the Delaware State line to White Marsh
Boulevard, north of Baltimore. Administrative
offices of the John P. Kennedy Memorial Highway