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The Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry was a passenger ferry service operating across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay from the 1930s until 1964. Known also as the ''Princess Anne-Kiptopeke Beach Ferry'' or ''Little Creek-Kiptopeke Beach Ferry'', the service connected Virginia Beach, Virginia (then Princess Anne County) with Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Beginning in the 1940s the ferry began accommodating vehicles as well as passengers, with the service then linking the Ocean Highway, a prominent coastal motor route. The service was acquired by an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1954, ceased operations in April, 1964, and was replaced by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. During its peak, the Little Creek Ferry operated 90 one-way trips each day with seven vessels. The southern terminus of the ferry service in Virginia Beach (originally Princess Anne County) remains accessible today, where it continues to bisect Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek. The original northern terminus in Cape Charles also remains accessible, and these two terminals continue to serve railway barges that ferry rail cars — belonging to Bay Coast Railroad, formerly the Eastern Shore Railroad — across the mouth of the Bay. In 1949, the northern terminus for ferry service was moved from Cape Charles to Kiptopeke where a new pier was completed in 1951 — shortening the 85 minute crossing〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Construction Equipment Guide, Pete Sigmund )〕 by 20 minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Baygateways.net )〕 That now defunct terminus with remnants of the original toll both lie within Kiptopeke State Park, where a sign from the defunct ''Touring Motor Lodge'' remains near the former toll booth. : * (Southern Terminus ) : * (Northern Terminus (original, Cape Charles) ) : * (Northern Terminus (later location, Kiptopke) ) ==Chesapeake Bay Ferry District== The ferry service was operated initially by the Virginia Ferry Corporation, a Virginia public service company. The Pennsylvania Railroad also had offered steamer passenger ferry service on the lower Chesapeake Bay between the Eastern Shore and Old Point Comfort (near Hampton) on the Virginia Peninsula, among other points. The railroad announced it would discontinue service in 1953. Largely in response to that, in 1954, by act of the Virginia General Assembly, the Chesapeake Bay Ferry District and a related oversight commission were created, initially with the hopes of restoring that service. However, the governmental agency was soon authorized to sell toll revenue bonds, acquire the still-operating private Little Creek Ferry and improve existing ferry service. However, the cross-bay service to Old Point Comfort was never restored. Another automobile-ferry service from Old Point Comfort across Hampton Roads to Willoughby Spit was replaced in 1957 by the new Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, which followed the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bridge-Tunnel (1952), and was the second bridge-tunnel in Virginia. This stimulated interest in the feasibility of a similar crossing at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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