![]() Nothing had ever been done to the scale of the Holland Tunnel. Problem? What Problem?Īt the time of construction, there were about a half dozen vehicle tunnels in the world. I wish people still wrote like this–maybe my co-author can teach me to write flowery. “THE HOLLAND TUNNEL IS A MODERN MARVEL.” New York Times (1923-Current file): 2. The two streams of vehicles cannot interfere with each other” –īy, WALDEMAR K. Note that the entrance and exits portals on both the New York and New Jersey sides. “The small maps of the approaches, forming part of the larger drawing that accompanies this article show how ingeniously the engineers have sought to foil the irrepressible desire of every free-born American motor truck and pleasure car driver to get himself into a traffic jam and thus retard his twenty-five-miles-an-hour progress. The Commissions decided that a tunnel would be more reasonable and still allow for War Department regulations for shipping traffic. And traffic would have to backtrack up the ramps, slowing traffic. To get cars from the surface of Manhattan Island to a bridge deck 180 feet in the air would take a ton of space for on and off ramps. Once done, it would connect Manhattan Island with the rest of the United States, and was designed to commute 15,000,000 trucks and cars every year.įirst of all, this was 1920 so most commercial vessels were coal and steam driven, or sail and steam driven, so the bottom of the bridge would need to be a minimum of 180 ft from the average high water mark to allow for shipping traffic. It would take seven years, three engineers, and $48,000,000 to complete (that would be closer to $637,000,000 in 2015 dollars). In 1920, the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission and the New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission gathered the funds and started construction of the Hudson River Vehicular tunnel. If you wanted to get to New Jersey, there were 15 ferries that traveled the Hudson river taking commuters back and forth between Manhattan Island and Jersey City, New Jersey. This was the state of things in 1927 Manhattan. So, people like my friend Kevin get on the ferry everyday to go to work. It is not feasible to build bridges because of the depth of the channel and the height of seagoing vessels that come in and out. In Washington, they have a huge ferry fleet to get people mostly across from the Seattle/Tacoma side of the Sound over to the Olympic Peninsula side. When I moved to the Seattle area, same thing–there are two bridges crossing Lake Washington. I was used to traveling back and forth across a river to get into both towns. The two cities are in two different counties and are separated by the Arkansas River. The ‘Dutch Tunnel’ is the world's first mechanical filtration tunnel designed by Ole Singstad.When I was a kid growing up in Arkansas, I lived in both Fort Smith and Van Buren, and really always considered them the same city. The tunnel has four traffic lanes, which in total provides traffic to 89.7 thousand cars daily, and over 14 million cars annually In the western direction, the length is 2.608 m, in the eastern direction - 2.551 m In 1982, the "Dutch Tunnel" was declared a National Historic Monument of civil engineering and machine building. The tunnel is not only an important traffic interchange. But soon the municipal government decided to rename it in honor of Clifford Milburn Holland, the tunnel engineer. Initially, the “Dutch Tunnel” was called another road interchange - the ‘Hudson River’ or the ‘Street Canal’ road tunnel. It is worth noting that at the opening stage, the ‘Dutch Tunnel’ was the leader in length among other underwater road tunnels. The actual construction of the ‘Dutch Tunnel’ began in 1920, and the tunnel became accessible to traffic in 1927. But due to some disagreements in the discussion, the project was suspended until 1919. The idea of creating a new road tunnel was born in 1906, it was then that the first project was developed. Also the top three includes the ‘Lincoln’ Tunnel and sufficiently well-known the ‘George Washington’ Bridge. And so the "Dutch Tunnel" is one of the transitions between Manhattan and New Jersey. In the USA, road junctions have multiple crossings. The “Dutch Tunnel” is located on Highway 78. Like most of the other tunnels, it is under the control of the Port Authority of New York. It connects New York's Hudson Square neighborhood in Lower Manhattan to the east, and Jersey City, New Jersey, to the west. The ‘Dutch Tunnel’ is a road tunnel that runs under the Hudson River.
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