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The floor of the tunnel is constructed of 1,800 texturized concrete panels, each 7.5 by 8 feet (2.29 by 2.44 m), with the railroad tracks sunken slightly below the road surface. [15] The interior is exposed rock, and contains several "safe-houses", which are small buildings that are used in case of severe earthquakes, vehicle fires, or other ...
Maynard Mountain is a 4,137-foot (1,261 m) mountain summit located in the Chugach Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, 3 mi (5 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska, at the isthmus of the Kenai Peninsula, where the Chugach Mountains meet the Kenai Mountains.
Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved. [5]
The area where modern-day Whittier sits was developed during World War II, when it was chosen as the place to build a military harbor and a logistics base for the US Army. [2] After the war, the military planned to develop a large complex in the area. What is now the Begich Towers was part of that plan.
Whittier (/ ˈ hw ɪ t i ər /) is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities.The 14.7-square-mile (38.0 km 2) city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census, an increase of 1,975 from the 2010 census figure.
Tunnel Rats is a West Coast underground hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California.Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam War, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective consists of some seventeen individual members and incorporates four affiliated groups, LPG, Future Shock, Foundation, and New Breed, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently.
The Whittier Line was a Pacific Electric interurban line which traveled between Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos. [2] A branch of the company's original Long Beach Line , operations along the line began in 1903.
1,600.0 487.7 $0.53 TollTag or Pay-by-Plate Virginia Downtown Tunnel: Elizabeth River Crossings: I-264: Elizabeth River: 3,813.0 1,162.2 $4.00 E-ZPass or Pay-by-Plate Midtown Tunnel: US 58: 4,194.0 1,278.3 Washington; Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel: Washington State Department of Transportation: SR 99: Downtown Seattle: 9,270.0 2,825.5 ...