Lincoln tunnel

Opening to traffic for the first time in 1937, the Lincoln Tunnel connecting Weehawken, New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan was hailed as the next great engineering triumph of the decade. The New Deal’s Public Works Administration provided funds for its construction in 1934, fresh off the success of the southern Holland Tunnel, the first mechanically ventilated underwater automobile tunnel to be built under the Hudson River. A second tube was built shortly after the Lincoln Tunnel’s first, with…

Wow … no traffic ! - Lincoln Tunnel, New York, 1939.

Lincoln Tunnel, New York City

Lincoln Tunnel into NYC

Lincoln Tunnel, vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, from Manhattan (39th Street), New York, to Weehawken, New Jersey. Designed by Ole Singstad, the tunnel was built by shield-and-compressed-air methods to hold back the outside water pressure. The tunnel consists of three vehicular tubes, each of which carries two lanes of traffic. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and lies 97 feet (30 metres) below the river’s surface. The central tube was the first to open, in 1937, and has…

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Driving thru Lincoln Tunnel Eastbound to New York City 34th StreetThe Lincoln Tunnel is an approximately 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) tunnel under the Hudson River...

Lincoln Tunnel at high speed

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I much prefer bridges to tunnels. I’d cross over the George Washington or the Tappan Zee any given day, any number of times rather than go through tunnels. Ever time I must go through the Lin…