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With a cost of $80 million (equivalent to $804 million in 2023 [26]), the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was also dubbed the most expensive tunnel in the United States. [192] It was expensive enough that the TBTA had been forced to look around the world for a company that could cover the tunnel's $33.5-million (equivalent to $337 million in 2023 ...
The New York Tunnel Company was the primary contractor. [8] When completed, it was known as the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, a name subsequently used for a vehicular tunnel slightly to the south. [9] Each tube is approximately 6,550 feet (2,000 m) long, [5] [6] [10] [a] with the sections under the river being 4,500 feet (1,400 m) long. [3]
[31] [32] Moses had proposed a third bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, on the site of what is now the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. [33] [34] The United States Department of War ultimately rejected the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge as an impediment to shipping, since it would obstruct access from the New York Harbor to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [35] [36]
Each of its tubes were designed 1.5 feet (0.46 m) wider than the Holland Tunnel in order to accommodate the wider cars of the period. When the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel opened in 1950, it was the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in North America, a title it still holds. [16]
A truck driver ignored cops’ warnings Thursday that his tractor-trailer was too big to make it through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel — and yes, he got stuck, plugging traffic between Brooklyn ...
That means those who already pay at the Lincoln or Holland Tunnel, for example, will not pay the full congestion fee. The credit amounts to $5 per ride for passenger vehicles, $2.50 for ...
The $16.1 billion Gateway project will add two new rail tunnels between NJ and Manhattan, reducing NJ Transit and Amtrak delays in a major corridor
A toll booth for the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, which would have been one of the entrances into the congestion pricing zone. Drivers going into the congestion zone would have paid the difference between the tunnel toll and the congestion zone toll. [54]