HRBT traffic shift to new bridge delayed

October 27, 2025

Weekend plans to shift Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel traffic to a new eight-lane bridge between Norfolk and the bridge-tunnel’s South Island have been postponed.

The Virginia Department of Transportation initially announced the planned traffic shift on Friday.

However, “during final preparations in advance of the shift, VDOT determined all prerequisite work was not complete,” state transportation officials said in a statement early Sunday. VDOT said the delay putting the new bridge into service “will permit the project’s design-build contractor, Hampton Roads Connector Partners, additional time to complete preparations and ensure a seamless traffic shift at a future date.”

The bridge is part of $3.9 billion project to expand the HRBT and Interstate 64 corridor between Norfolk and Hampton to eight lanes.

When it opens, VDOT said the new bridge is initially slated to carry two lanes of eastbound traffic. The 202-foot-wide trestle will ultimately replace the existing bridge by adding 1.2 miles of new deck length to the HRBT’s infrastructure.

In its final traffic configuration, the new trestle will carry four lanes in each direction — eight lanes total with shoulders — between Willoughby Spit and the bridge’s South Island.

Built with materials that include stainless steel and carbon fiber, officials said the new bridge’s lifespan should exceed 100 years.

Once traffic shifts to the new bridge, the contractor will demolish the old eastbound trestle and finish construction of the rest of the new structure. That work includes constructing new westbound approach spans at the Norfolk shoreline and replacing the existing bridges that connect to the South Island.

VDOT said the south trestle is just the second new bridge in nearly 50 years since the HRBT was last widened in 1976.

The bridge-tunnel first opened in 1957 as a two-lane crossing.

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