The Lincoln Tunnel carries road traffic beneath the Hudson River between Weehawken, New Jersey, and Midtown Manhattan, and is among the busiest vehicular tunnels in the world given the volume of commuter traffic it carries into New York City each day. Built in stages with three separate tubes opened between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s, it was constructed to relieve growing road traffic pressure on the region's existing Hudson River crossings as car ownership expanded in the New York metropolitan area. It remains a critical artery for commuters and buses traveling between New Jersey and Manhattan.
Facts
Completion YearThe central tube opened in 1937; a second tube opened in 1945 and a third in 1957, per the same source paragraph. SignificanceOne of only two automobile tunnels built under the Hudson River, carrying a combined average of nearly 113,000 vehicle crossings a day as of 2016. 1 Connections
Operated By
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Preceded By
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Lincoln Tunnel
WikipediaSecond paragraph, central-tube sentence
Construction of the central tube, which originally lacked sufficient funding due to the Great Depression, started in 1934 and it opened in 1937.
Third paragraph, daily-crossings sentence
As of 2016, both directions of the tunnel carry a combined average of 112,995 vehicular crossings every day.
Introduction, routes carried
It carries New Jersey Route 495 on the New Jersey side and the unsigned New York State Route 495 on the New York side.
Preceded By: Holland Tunnel, First-tunnel sentence
The first trans-Hudson vehicular tunnel, the Holland Tunnel downstream connecting Jersey City, New Jersey, with Lower Manhattan, was under construction at the time.
Operated By: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Infobox, operator field
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
In Group: Road Tunnels, Lead sentence
The Lincoln Tunnel is an approximately 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to the west with Midtown Manhattan in New York City to the east.
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