By Hau Chu, The Washington PostThis view of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge can be terrifying. For $40 in cash or $50 with a card, the Kent Island Express drives people across the four-mile stretch. Requests for the service have been up since the collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge in March.
“I do think about more often than I ever did before,” she said. “We travel the bridge 30, sometimes 60 times a day, but I wouldn’t let it stop me.” Michelle Morgan talks with Lisa Okes, who says the chitchat with passengers helps ease their stress. Steven Eskew, who owns and drives for Kent Island Express, shows some of the eye masks his wife made for people who don’t like to look out of the window as they traverse the bridge.
“I absolutely hate this bridge,” she said. “And since the Key Bridge collapsed, I don’t have a lot of confidence in bridges.”