{"id":5656,"date":"2021-12-14T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:19:36","slug":"the-hampton-roads-bridge-tunnel-expansion-project-tbm-arrival-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"The Hampton Roads Bridge &#8211; Tunnel Expansion Project TBM Arrival Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrcpjobs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HRCP (Hampton Roads Connector Partners)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiadot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Department of Transportation<\/a> are going to celebrate the arrival of tunnel boring machine, Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mary is 146 m (430 feet) long and 14 m (46 feet) in diameter and will excavate the new twin tunnels as part of the <a href=\"www.hrbtexpansion.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project<\/a>, which contains the widening of 16 km (10 miles) of the I-64. For further information and attending the event, watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P3R-xGcSa_E[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, you can visit <a href=\"www.hrbtexpansion.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiadot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for extra details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRCP (Hampton Roads Connector Partners) and Virginia Department of Transportation are going to celebrate the arrival of tunnel boring machine, Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021. Mary is 146 m (430 feet) long and 14 m (46 feet) in diameter and will excavate the new twin tunnels as part of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project, which contains the widening of 16 km (10 miles) of the I-64. For further information and attending the event, watch the video below. [embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P3R-xGcSa_E[\/embedyt] Also, you can visit here and here for extra details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[440,471,1382,1383],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-hampton-roads-bridge-tunnel","tag-hrbt-expansion-project","tag-hrcp","tag-virginia-department-of-transportation","post--single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Expansion TBM Arrival Ceremony<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Celebrating the arrival of tunnel boring machine, Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5656\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Expansion TBM Arrival Ceremony\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Celebrating the arrival of tunnel boring machine, Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5656\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tunnelingworld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-14T10:19:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Virginia-Portsmouth-Marine-Terminal-HRBT-Project-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ashleykaren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ashleykaren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tunnelingworld.com\\\/?p=5656#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tunnelingworld.com\\\/?p=5656\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ashleykaren\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tunnelingworld.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3a124786bb4f95cd5862041ae17c2b2c\"},\"headline\":\"The Hampton Roads Bridge &#8211; 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