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5 lanes of roadway (2 Manhattan-bound, 3 Brooklyn-bound) Oldest suspension bridge in NYC. Also oldest suspension/cable-stayed hybrid bridge. Manhattan Bridge: 1909: 6,854 2,089: 7 lanes of roadway and trains: Double-decker bridge with 5 westbound lanes and 2 eastbound lanes. 3 of the westbound lanes and the subway are below the other 4 lanes.
To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s. [396] Though the museum was ultimately not constructed, as many as 10,000 drawings and documents relating to it were found in a carpenter shop in Williamsburg in 1976. [397]
Aerial shot from 1973 of the Holland Tunnel Rotary serving eastbound tube of tunnel; a fifth exit was added in 2004 I-78 in New York and New Jersey. The section of I-78 within New York is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), [1] although the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) considers I-78 to be 0.9 miles (1.4 km) long. [2]
In 1955, the TA recommended that the Board of Estimate approve a contract to reconstruct a junction near the DeKalb Avenue station, on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge, to eliminate a bottleneck there. [28] This was the first step in a larger plan to improve transit service between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
[17] [18] Use of the existing tunnel was considered as an option because the Montague Street Tunnel had surplus capacity, having carried the M train until its reroute from the BMT Nassau Street Line to the IND Sixth Avenue Line in 2010, and the N train during the reconstruction of the Manhattan Bridge from 1986 until 2004. [19] [20]
The 118-foot-wide (36 m) deck carries eight lanes of vehicular traffic, two subway tracks, and two walkway and bike paths that merge in Manhattan. The bridge is one of four vehicular bridges directly connecting Manhattan Island and Long Island, along with the Queensboro Bridge to the north and the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges to the south. [3]
The bill also provided the authority with the power to build the Brooklyn–Manhattan tunnel if funds became available. [48] By this time, the construction cost of the Brooklyn–Manhattan tunnel was now projected to be $58 million (equivalent to $1 billion in 2023 [26]). [49] Detailed plans for the tunnel were released in May 1936.
[210] [212] However, some street maps, such as the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission's official map, bore the older name for several years. [ 213 ] In early 2018, the New York City Department of Transportation installed new black-on-white route designation signs on the Jackie Robinson Parkway as part of a program to replace route ...