If SELC really wants to stop the bridge perhaps they should also be fighting for a building moratorium everywhere north of Duck or else it’s only a matter of I like your explanation! If the bridge is such a great environmental concern to the SELC I think they should be making their case to the public. The only thing holding up this bridge hinges on this lawsuit. I don’t see the alternatives to the bridge as solutions. I totally get that folks don’t want to see OXB morph into a popular vacation destination, but it’s to late, not to mention we seem to be growing as fast we can without the bridge, the need for the bridge is growing with it. Roads being inundated with flooding for any reason seems a better argument for the bridge than against it. So far the only concern I’ve seen mentioned is it would be in the way of old established “Duck blinds.” I hope it takes more than that in court.
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The lawsuit pointed out negative responses due to environment concerns. But in mid-November letter to Angela Welsh, the Planning Director, Albemarle Rural Planning Organization, NCDOT District Engineer Sterling Baker informed her that the project is being delayed for two years. The court ruling is just the latest chapter in the 30-year push to get the bridge built to serve visitors to Corolla and the off-road area north of it. Current estimates by NCDOT put construction costs at $464 million and purchasing rights-of-way at an estimated $14 million. The project is estimated, according to various documents, to cost between $450 million and $625 million with about 20 percent of the cost to be state funding and the remainder in private money repaid through collecting tolls. And both towns have pushed for the bridge due to highly contested traffic conditions in their neighborhoods during the summer months. The Outer Banks portion of Currituck County can only be accessed by driving through the Dare County towns of Duck and Southern Shores. “It’s an adventure that you can only get at Newport Aquarium.”Ī family-friendly attraction, Shark Bridge is included with admission to Newport Aquarium.Ĭommemorating the opening of the Shark Bridge, Newport Aquarium has added extremely rare scalloped hammerhead sharks into the Surrounded by Sharks exhibit.Īfter the scalloped hammerheads went into the Surrounded by Sharks exhibit April 27-29, Newport Aquarium now has the largest collection of scalloped hammerhead sharks on display in North America, as well as one of the largest in the world.The need for the bridge has been linked to hurricane evacuation and the possibility that some emergency services personnel, such as deputies and EMS workers, could use the bridge. “For our thrill-seeking guests who dare to cross, Shark Bridge is a breathtaking way to experience sharks like never before,” said Eric Rose, executive director at Newport Aquarium. Should guests dare to cross, the Shark Bridge offers the thrill of walking closely atop sharks, shark rays, stingrays and hundreds of fish from an unrivaled vantage point.
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The Shark Bridge is a 75-foot-long, V-shaped rope bridge suspended over the open waters of the Surrounded by Sharks exhibit’s 385,000-gallon tank. (April 29, 2015)- Newport Aquarium‘s all-new Shark Bridge – the only rope suspension bridge in North America where guests can walk just inches above nearly two dozen sharks – is scheduled to open to the public 10 a.m. North America’s largest collection of scalloped hammerhead sharks now on exhibit WORLD’S FIRST AND ONLY SHARK BRIDGE TO OPEN THURSDAY AT NEWPORT AQUARIUM