The Chesapeake Bay Bridgework (commonly illustrious as the Bay Connexion) is a prima dual-span connection in the US Denote of Colony; spanning the Chesapeake Bay, it connects the advise\'s Northeastern and Occidental Hold regions. At 4.3 miles (7km) in length, the innovational motility was the humans\'s long continous over-water steel artifact when it unsealed in 1952. The structure is officially named the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Span after William Preston Lane, Jr. who, as controller of Maryland, implemented its thinking.