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The Allegheny Mountain Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel carrying the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the Allegheny Mountains. At this point, the Turnpike carries Interstates 70 and 76. When the tunnel was built, it was considered an "engineering marvel." [1] The tunnel was built in 1939 and is used by 11 million vehicles annually today.
Longest transit tunnel until Simplon Tunnel was opened. Metro Gwangju Metro: Line 1 (Sotae station–Dosan station) Gwangju, South Korea 15,000 m (9.321 mi) 2004 Railway Nakayama Tunnel: Gunma Prefecture, Japan 14,857 m (9.232 mi) 1982 Part of the Jōetsu Shinkansen: Water supply Dangara Irrigation Tunnel [76]
I-70 / I-76 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) Eastern Continental Divide: 6,070 feet (1,850 m) 1939, 1965 [49] Armstrong Tunnel: Pittsburgh: Motor Vehicles Duquesne University: 1,320 feet (400 m) 1927 Berry Street Tunnel: Pittsburgh: West Busway: 2,800 feet (850 m) 1865 oldest road tunnel in the United States, originally a rail tunnel Blue Mountain Tunnel
Tuscarora Mountain Tunnel is one of four original Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels still in active use. A second tube was bored in the late 1960s to ease traffic conditions. The Tuscarora Mountain tunnels measure 1.1 miles (1.8 km) in length and are the second-longest active tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike system.
Publicly accessible portions in red, closed portions in grey, Rays Hill Tunnel in magenta, Sideling Hill Tunnel in dark magenta The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 when a modern stretch opened to ease traffic congestion in the tunnels.
The Fyllingsdalentunnelen is one example of a tunnel built to purpose from the start. The tunnels listed here can be either be pure cycling tunnels and/or pedestrian tunnels with separate tubes, or shared-use tunnels (i.e. having a shared lane, or a bike lane and footpath without a non-crossable physical separation).
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The Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a $3.3 billion 2.83-kilometre (1.76 mi), double-decker bored highway tunnel under Downtown Seattle. Construction began in July 2013 using " Bertha ", at the time the world's largest earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine, with a 17.5-metre (57.5 ft) cutterhead diameter.