Building The Lincoln Tunnel

CBS2’s Dana Tyler reports.

[@joannevaccarella1209]

Thank you men for all the hard work you did for us; amazing.

[@ajonesa1231]

I have been trying to find out how they did this my entire life!!! I had no idea they dug under the river floor I always though they submerged the tunnel in the water and the tunnel actally sat at the bottom of the river. I have been enlightened!!!!

[@samanthab1923]

See if you can figure this one out, how do they get those big cranes off the top of the buildings when they are done?

[@slapshot68]

Time to build another tube, traffic is crazy even on a wknd

[@mattyian1208]

slapshot68 Yes they need to build a fourth tube for express traffic and for overheight vehicles and trucks over 13’0”.

[@justsoblessed]

Matty Iannielli and it probably won’t take that long to build because of better technology

[@AidenP_MX]

In the tunnel rn watching this

[@godprv]

Who here after is flooding?

[@SatanSeed]

me

[@No1SlapFIGHTFan]

Yep

[@Mari-rq7wh]

Yoo wtf lol

[@aishabeauty8575]

🙋🏽‍♀️

[@kimberlytherese4403]

Me!

[@stephenhaas376]

Outer metal casings, built in, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania beginning in 1905, the company began making iron plates for lining under water tunnels using the shield method; its first such project was with the Pennsylvania Railroad for the railroad tunnels in NYC. Other projects were Holland (1923), Lincoln (1937), Queens-Midtown (1936-1940) and Battery-to-Brooklyn (1945) car tunnels and the MacAdoo and Harlem RR tunnels.

[@8avexp]

The toll was still 50 cents well into the 1960s. I still remember the 50-cent toll.

[@kevinwong6588]

Became $1 eastbound only in 1970.

[@42luke93]

Oh wow! That’s $5.40 today, still cheap compared to now with bridges nearing or at the $20 bracket.

[@8avexp]

@@42luke93 I remember when they started collecting tolls in one direction only. It was adopted on all Hudson River crossings, including the Tappan Zee and Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.

[@42luke93]

@@8avexp Oh wow, so it waa 50 cents each way then right? In google maps like the garden state parkway. It’s fun to see the a changes from several toll boths condensed to just one side, now they’re all unfortunately gone. No more cash. Which is annoying when borrowing someone’s car.

[@8avexp]

@@42luke93 Yep, 50 cents each way. When they first started collecting tolls eastbound-only, the existing toll booths were left in place at first, with a yellow light flashing above each booth and a big sign that said, "NO TOLL collected this direction. DO NOT STOP!"

[@rayfridley6649]

That first tube of the Lincoln Tunnel was not the first to have mechanical ventilation.That distinction belongs to the Holland Tunnel!

[@samanthab1923]

Remember as a kid driving thru the radio would cut out & then pop back on at the vent spot half way!

[@NewMadrid01]

Absolutely incredible

[@snehapunamlama2375]

Amazing technology.. thank you to the brilliant mind who thought about this..

[@Simpsonfanguy]

Lincoln Tunnel Location : Weehawken New Jersey Constructed : 1934 - 1937 ( Center Tube ) 1941 - 1945 ( North Tube ) 1954 - 1957 ( South Tube ) Opened : December 22nd 1937 ( Center Tube ) February 1st 1945 ( North Tube ) May 25th 1957 ( South Tube )

[@Splursy]

I still don’t know how water didint get inside while building

[@JohnConnor-qi2yz]

It's going under the river not through it.

[@42luke93]

@@JohnConnor-qi2yz They were inserting tubes. How didn’t they get wet though? Was it walls they put while installing tunnel?

[@wtfa2910]

If they emptied all the water around New York City how many bodies wood they find

[@djfrankbrazil8131]

Legends!

[@bjnowak]

This is amazing!

[@TheCloakedTiger]

0:03 I don’t know why, but those entrances make me a little nervous. It’s like being swallowed by a gulper eel...

[@helvihautala9267]

Leaking tunnel? It has been leaking since the 30s? So much congestion cars from the 30's are getting out.

[@RenaissancePeopleNYC]

Holland Tunnel was 10 years earlier

[@fmradio42]

West New York NJ has a very nice bike path over the tunnel along the Hudson river.Phil Collins former girlfriend Dana Tyler.

[@Bckn4th]

Riding through it now 😊🧐

[@Telcom100]

1:41 is a non sequiter. Opening the north and south tunnels has nothing to do with the number of "toll lanes".

[@42luke93]

they never imagined it becoming a zoo. So crowded there compared to the video, never this empty.

[@elevatorstrainsmorebytrans3554]

1:13 first people traveling from ny to nj

[@nombrilou]

The Godfather PS2!!!

[@StevenNigro421]

My parents weren't even born yet in the 50s

[@samanthab1923]

Jeez you're young! My dad worked as an Ironworker in NYC. As kids we asked if he worked on the GW bridge, laughed & said I wasn't even born yet!

[@kevsta67]

3 tunmels with 2 lanes woild be 6 lanes. Why did she say a total of 13 lanes ?

[@JuliaMusgrove]

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[@Lasheem]

Julia Musgrove go ahead

[@cristhianyadhir5888]

You've got my permission

[@regianeduarte2000]

I was just in the Lincoln tunnel

[@terryfriend16]

Americas workers did this. Why? Because we're a free nation to expand our imaginations. Not that ever go to waste.

[@natee2169]

Wait but why couldn’t they make a bridge...

[@samanthab1923]

At the time all the shipping business was on the west side. Building a bridge would have disrupted traffic & cost wise would have been too much.

[@branstark3557]

Can they do something about the toll atleast?

[@TheUnknown-mg8fv]

Now in days it would them them 20 years

[@MUHAMMADFARHANNAUFALMahasiswaP]

NAYAA

[@wilwilson8146]

That old mid Atlantic accent

[@cheezeball6109]

the privelege ....

[@supernash1601]

No women help build it ??? Where my feminist at

[@MissCellanious1]

It's not typically feminist who hate gay men so why you trying to flex on them with this of all things? You help?

[@dextar9257]

18$ toll now 2021

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[@mopthermopther]

Trump wants to build a bridge from the Holland Tunnel to the Lincoln Tunnel. Says it will be a good money making deal.

[@djmeagaaim17]

Interesting idea, but how does he plan on doing that?

[@mopthermopther]

Well, he’s a good business man. We’ll just have to trust him.

[@djmeagaaim17]

@@mopthermopther honestly I rather see a bridge or tunnel built across the long Island sound

[@mopthermopther]

djmeagaaim17 That’s an even better idea. I will put it b4 the Central Planning Committe.

[@robertlouisburns]

Trump’s done more for this economy than Blow Biden. Biden's done more for other counties than America.

[@oxriyy1983]

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