New York's Deep Tunnel - The Lincoln Tunnel's Forgotten Past - IT'S HISTORY

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As one of the busiest vehicular tunnels in the world and a cousin tunnel to the highly successful Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel sees over 100,000 cars every single day and around 21 million a year. It connects New York to New Jersey and serves as an incredibly strong connection between the two states- today on It’s History, we will discover the story of the Lincoln Tunnel.
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Chapters
A word from Blinkist - 00:55
What led up to the Lincoln Tunnel? - 01:05
How did the Holland Tunnel inspire the Lincoln Tunnel? - 3:10
Were there any other underwater tunnels proposed?- 3:41
Port Authority versus The Joint Tunnel Commission of New York - 3:58
Why was the Lincoln Tunnel built? - 3:59
New York’s growing traffic problem - 5:46
How did the Holland Tunnel and Lincoln Tunnels impact each other? - 6:54
Picking a location for the Lincoln Tunnel - 7:45
Lincoln Tunnel’s financial struggles - 9:06
How was the Lincoln Tunnel funded? - 9:53
The engineer behind the Lincoln Tunnel - 10:43
Building the Lincoln Tunnel - 13:36
Why was the Lincoln Tunnel renamed? - 16:43
How did the Lincoln Tunnel’s ventilation system work? - 17:13
The Lincoln Tunnel’s first tour - 17:27
The Lincoln Tunnel’s Grand Opening - 18:12
Building the second and third tubes - 19:19
Other events at the Lincoln Tunnel - 20:32
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@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

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@EDouble1 11 месяцев назад

Great video! Awesome info! And it's *LIVES* not lifes.

@sonnypruitt6639 11 месяцев назад

It's about time they built another tunnel, and a bridge too!!!

@Ticonderoga12 10 месяцев назад

Crazy respect and admiration to those brave workers who's work we take for granted everyday

@tomo9126 2 года назад

I've driven through the tunnels hundreds of times. It is an engineering marvel and a pain in the ass. Once you figure out the timing it's OK, but one break down or accident and you could be stuck for an hour or two.

@LickMyMusketBallsYankee 2 года назад

Now imagine a break down in the one car wide Tesla tunnel in LA

@Snarf_Le_Wombat Год назад

Imagine being stuck in a tunnel, now imagine being trapped and seeing engulfing flames racing towards you 😮

@thomasr3805 2 года назад

Coming out of the Lincoln tunnel and seeing the city after exiting is such an awesome experience.

@godbluffvdgg 2 года назад

:) It really is!...I remember my first time in 1978... It's awe inspiring when it opens up...I used to think philly was a big city...lol...It's like Hackensack compared to NYC...EVERYTHING is so huge...I did deliveries to the magazine and Ad companies on madison ave and surrounding areas for a couple years...I've been there many times since then...Very few people from my area EVER get up there...it's so close too...

@prevost8686 2 года назад

@@godbluffvdgg The first time I drove into Manhattan in a bus with 54 people on board was an amazing experience. It’s was a Friday night about 7:00 and was pouring rain so hard I could barely see out of my windshield. I dropped off my group and high tailed it to NJ where my motel room was. If you can drive a 45ft. Motorcoach in Manhattan you can drive anywhere.

@godbluffvdgg 2 года назад

@@prevost8686 :)... It's brutal with ANY vehicle...It looks better these days but; back in the day, it was HAIRY!

@prevost8686 2 года назад

@@godbluffvdgg COVID has all but decimated tourism into NYC. Even liberals from other parts of the country do not want to travel into NYC after mayor Deblasio did his best to ruin the city. We went from running into NYC constantly to not taking a group into the city in two years. Hopefully the new mayor will reverse the damage done by Deblasio.

@godbluffvdgg 2 года назад

@@prevost8686 The next mayor will be worse, just like it is here in philly...They're all pieces of shit and they get their orders from abroad. NYC is done; put a fork in 'em!

@robertnarmstrongjr3920 2 года назад

I was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. I remember the first time I went through the Lincoln Tunnel. I was 17 years old going into NYC on an Easter Sunday It was unusually hot 85 to 90 degrees. We came down New Jersey Route 4 and we hit traffic immediately when we made the transition from Rt 4 to Rt 3 in those days cars didn't have AC. It took two hours to get to the tunnel entrance. The Lincoln Tunnel and all the other tunnels and bridges in NYC are magnificent. Later on in my mid 20's I lived in Manhattan. I loved the electric atmosphere in NY. Skating at Rockefeller Center or at the Wollman Rink in Central Park. The Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade an so much more I could go on and on. Fortunately I meet a great young lady from Maine we moved out of NY and had three beautiful daughters. My wife, I and my oldest daughter live just north of St Paul Minnesota. Life sure takes you on a wild ride.

@michaelbennett6317 Год назад

Im from Greenville which part of you from?

@brianandrickson Год назад

@@michaelbennett6317 I'm from Greenville as well. It has changed quite a bit in the last few years

@MAGNETICENT 11 месяцев назад

❤️🥰

@mmcgahn5948 10 месяцев назад

You can’t transition from Route 4 to Route 3

@rippinryan1982 8 месяцев назад

Jersey City is the Hudson tunnel, not Lincoln tunnel.

@ralphthompson9470 2 года назад

Years ago, my grandmother told me that my father's grandfather, my great grandfather, was an operating engineer working a crane during the construction of the Lincoln tunnel. She told me that one day, while doing maintenance on the crane, lubricating it as the operators did in those days, someone else came over and turned on the crane. A cable caught him on its drum and he lost a forearm because of it. Sadly, I never met him as, he passed away before I was born. I do recall my grandmother showing me some pictures taken during the construction.

@sleggo 2 года назад

It is probably more appropriate to refer to Abraham Lincoln as, “The late president” rather than, “The former president.” He died in office and was never the “former” president during his lifetime. This is just a little distinction that probably annoyed only me. As to the history and images; Excellent! Thank you.

@nycurbanist3616 Год назад

Grew up in Jersey, live in NYC now, the Lincoln Tunnel is a pain in the ass, but the approach ramp, when you run parallel to the West side of Manhattan, especially at night where you get a uninterupted view of the towers all sparkling with lights, is absolutely beautiful. But then you end up in the Lincoln Tunnel so it's kind of a Win-Lose situation.

@verb0ze 5 месяцев назад

Sometimes when I travel through the tunnel and get annoyed at delays caused by traffic, I step back and wonder at the marvelous engineering feat this tunnel is. I remember that I'm literally traveling under the river for 1.5 miles! That a select few put so much thought into its design, and many more sacrificed blood,sweat, tears, and even their lives for me to be able to sit here and complain about traffic. The things we take for granted!

@michaelnewjerseydiecast5535 2 года назад

I have always amazed how it was created as kid riding into Manhattan. It's always heavy traffic during the day and evening. But I really enjoyed learning more about how Lincoln Tunnel came to be.

@MattyMatt80 Год назад

As in New Yorker, I’ve driven to this many times. I look at this as a huge technological advance in engineering. It’s great to see it’s still going strong today.

@onebabyguerilla 2 года назад

So I'm from NYC, and to answer your question at the end of the video, yes! We see it as both an engineering marvel and a really big pain in the ass. The same goes for all of the bridges and train tunnels!!!!

@JeffFrmJoisey 2 года назад

Been going thru the Lincoln Tunnel since I was a kid. It was a treat. Have driven thru it may times, it's a little scary being that close to walls and other traffic, especially in a two-way tube. For some reason, I remember onw or two kids "mooning" a car or few going back to NJ while on a school trip bus in the mid 1970s!! FYI - It's WPA - Works Project Administration, not Projects Work Administration. Your videos are great, but you need a fact checker to make them perfect!

@dsxa918 11 месяцев назад

Mooning

@ronalddean3630 2 года назад

I have been through that tunnel since I was a child. It has always amazed me. There is this rush upon exiting the tunnel and arriving in Manhattan! I remember once, I was driving a rental car and for some reason, I bumped the curb on the way into Manhattan and the hubcap popped off. OMG, the noise was intense as it rolled its way forward until coming to a stop. This presentation was fascinating, to say the least. Interesting, I never once thought about a leak or a flood. That would not be good.

@caponecharles2643 3 месяца назад

Native New Yorker, grew up in Brooklyn. I drive every day wherever I go. I still have panic attacks whenever I drive through NY tunnels. The realization of being under water has always made me pause and take a bridge whenever possible. Nothing worse than heavy traffic in the tunnel. It’s more than an engineering marvel . These tunnels are apocalyptic marvels. Driving 97 feet under a river is still unbelievable to me . The engineer in charge should be considered one of the top 100 Americans of all time

@anthonybranca1800 2 года назад

I've traveled through that tunnel numerous times. Growing up in Hoboken the Lincoln tunnel is considered an engineering marvel. I would love for you to do a video on the Goethals Bridge. I love the new one.

@Hypestrike1 2 года назад

One aspect of the Lincoln Tunnel, and indeed other subaqueous tunnels in New York, that no one seems concerned about is the issue of riverbed scour by fast moving currents. The Hudson River is a tidal river and while a lot of silt is carried by the currents moving downstate to be deposited in the Upper New York Bay area, the same current can remove silt from the overburden above the tunnel's exterior cast iron tubes. In an 2009 article I read titled "Secrets of the deep in New York waters", it was written that the Hudson current had previously moved closed to the Manhattan shoreline, but was displaced into the centre of the river by the construction of Battery Park City, built on landfill created by spoils from the WTC bathtub. According to the article, the displaced current has resulted in the Lincoln Tunnel tubes losing up to 25% of their mud coverage from the riverbed and the Port Authority was supposed to be looking into dealing with it. I know the PATH tubes downriver from the Lincoln Tunnel, which are at a much shallower depth in the Hudson's riverbed than the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, received an extra ring of reinforced steel in their linings and protective concrete mats above them on the riverbed, but that was less to with riverbed scour than security concerns. I never found out how or what the PA did to address the issue mentioned in the "Secrets of the deep" article, but since riverbed scour is presumably still a thing, shouldn't it be a top maintenance concern for the agencies operating all the subaqueous tunnels in New York and not just the Lincoln Tunnel? I don't tend to find much discussion about it online, but an easy way of addressing it I suppose would be to dump excavated rock from construction sites on the riverbed above the tunnels, since rock takes a long time to be eroded by water.

@prevost8686 2 года назад

People generally have to die before bureaucrats get anything done.

@davidemmyg 2 года назад

The for profit system dictates how the bureaucrats react. Their lethargy is not seen when dealing with the rich and their projects.

@prevost8686 2 года назад

@@davidemmyg And that’s true regardless of whether the country is a free Republic or a Socialist shithole.

@Nevir202 2 года назад

Since this tunnel was blasted into the bedrock, I don' t see why river sediment would be a concern.

@Hypestrike1 2 года назад

@@Nevir202 Only the sections of the Lincoln Tunnel tubes that are under or approaching Manhattan on one side and the Palisade cliffs on the opposite side were excavated through rock. The main length of the tubes running under the Hudson itself were bored twenty feet below the bottom of the river through silt and mainly above the underlying rock strata.

@juant3969 2 года назад

Another awesome video. Always wanted to know the history of the Lincoln Tunnel. I drive through the tunnel on a daily basis and to me it’s one of the most beautiful and conveniently placed tunnels between the two states. As you come out of tunnel on the Jersey side you’re literally graced with an amazing view of the NYC skyline. Its also the busiest tunnel in the NYC metro area.

@lismaryperez6885 2 месяца назад

Born and raised in Hudson County, NJ, I used to just view the Lincoln Tunnel as a part of many peoples' daily travels. I was amazed when I learned that it sits under the Hudson- NOT IN IT. The older I get, the more respect I have for it and its history. I use it plenty of times throughout the year and always have since childhood whenever my family and I would visit NYC. Sure, it is a PIA but a very important part of American life and history.

@jeffreymartucci7184 2 года назад

When you drive the Lincoln in a bus the vehicle just fits the lane. You don't look left or right just concentrate on keeping your vehicle in line, you are about 12" from the bus next to you.

@miketaylorID1 2 года назад

Growing up in Jersey City we would take the tunnel to visit family in Brooklyn. Would always look forward to seeing the NY|NJ border line written in the wall tile. Knowing that the Hudson river was above your head was fascinating and frightening all at once!!

@crashryanphoto 2 года назад

We live in Weehawken and use it all the time. I laughed when I saw a street sign in your video that said you could be through the Lincoln Tunnel in 4 minutes. More like 30 minutes (rush hour)! I love that tunnel, but it looks its age. It's dark and dingy inside, and needs a major renovation. They have to preserve this engineering marvel.

@filanfyretracker 2 года назад

probably the greatest challenge with something like this is to do the work right a tube would need to be closed. Though I guess the PANYNJ could add trains to PATH unless that is already at capacity.

@davidfarrugia7646 11 месяцев назад

I am a greyhound driver and I drive threw that tunnel more then anyone on this channel hands down. The tunnel is a very important part of New York more people get in and out of New York through that tunnel than any other crossing into New York, and is the most highest capacity highway in the United States. The bus lane has 1780 buses traveling through that tunnel every Monday through Friday from 6 to 10 AM, New York would come to a halt if these tunnels weren’t there

@willmatic84 2 года назад

I went through this tunnel in January when the Holland was closed it was amazing going through that tunnel for the 1st time I say it was amazing because of the history and the men that worked on this project its crazy awesome video 👌🏼

@nyrmetros 2 года назад

Great video! Glad it's not falling apart anymore!

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@nyrmetros 2 года назад

@@ITSHISTORY I would love a video on the IRT, or BMT, the NYC Els, the steinway/Belmont tunnels.... Great work!

@davidwahrheit6143 10 месяцев назад

Minor correction: the agency's name was the Works Progress Administration, not the Progress Works Administration.

@jbauern57 2 года назад

Love the channel. Maybe do one on the CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE TUNNEL?

@markp5762 2 года назад

As usual great information and photography.

@dkleinsch823 2 года назад

I go through the Lincoln tunnel a few times a year. I’ve always thought it was really cool and it blows my mind we are driving under the Hudson River lol

@8avexp 2 года назад

I still remember when the third tube had fluorescent lighting.

@captainkeyboard1007 2 года назад

This was a great show. Although I am interested in railroad tunnels and tubes, I am grateful to learn about the history of the Lincoln Tunnel as a native New Yorker. Again, this history is excellent.

@royalewithchz 2 года назад

Really enjoy your channel Ryan. I have learned a ton from you. Thank you for the great quality documentaries sir. All the best to you and yours.

@UHoldThat Год назад

I live in union city, nj and I literally just took a bus from ny by the the Lincoln tunnel today and I've taken it before but I always wonder how it was built so thats how I ended up watching this video. 👍

@christopherliebler 2 года назад

Drove through it for 20 years fantastic tunnel one story I was driving by a car completely engulfed in flames before that mini tow truck fire engine came that could turn around in the tunnel I was like if this car explodes I've got nowhere to go

@ronalddean3630 2 года назад

WHAT? OMG!

@mndlessdrwer 2 года назад

It's amazing how much longevity those tunnels have achieved.

@peterwhitman5575 2 года назад

You do such an Awesome job, and your efforts show. The time you put into your Vlog is more then impressive, and is very appreciated by all who view them, especially those who Love History. My I just personally say Thank You.

@SaulGoodman926 2 года назад

been using the lincoln tunnel since i was a kid, i see it as both awesome and terrible. There's always so much traffic, and it seems broken down in some parts. but it's also a really impressive work of engineering and is relatively well kept.

@JimAllen-Persona Год назад

Love the image at 20:33 - I take the tunnel quite a bit but had no idea what the area around the Helix looks like. Looks like it’s been built up a lot since this video clip.

@cmdrflake 2 года назад

Around the time I was born (1951- 1954) my Dad hated driving through the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. He was very, very claustrophobic. So when He got a ride through one of the tunnels (including the Hudson & Manhattan, today’s PATH) he panicked to the amusement of his driver. But he got revenge on a ferry during the early stage of a hurricane.

@cgillyard 2 года назад

I would take the Lincoln tunnel when I would commute into Manhattan. Amazing documentary.

@Stache987 2 года назад

I've traveled through the Holland more often as a driver, of course the busses take the Lincoln, it just feels too tight in either one, you have to maintain your center of lane carefully those sides get creepy especially where it curves. The toll is horrible now, when I could use NJT I would

@qolspony 2 года назад

Thank you for the great Presentation. My CB handle was indeed The LINCOLN TUNNEL MASTER 315 back in 1989. Despatcher Covenant House.

@chrislongbeard 2 года назад

Coming from LI it's a PITA. It's easier to go across the Williamsburg Bridge to the Holland Tunnel to get to NJ. The distance to get to the Lincoln from the 59th St Bridge across Manhattan is longer and in worse traffic. All to save on tolls.

@acemobile9806 2 года назад

About 10 years ago I moved to NYC from a tiny town in NM, worked at JFK & dated a girl who worked for AMEX & lived in Hoboken. With time the commute developed into a fine science & that became my route every weekend when I stayed at her place. In the early mornings, my best time was 33 minutes door to door. In the afternoons, lol most of the time it was 2.5 hours. The longest I remember sitting was 4.5 hours. The day I was moving into the city, I missed the exit onto the Narrows in SI & just kept on going to the Lincoln. My mother got the dime tour of the city as we made our way over to the Midtown. I was in a lifted 4x4 towing a double axle trailer so baptism by fire 🤣 Fun time in my life that I'll never forget! NYC is a helluva place

@randallhill7979 11 месяцев назад

Excellent Video, thanks 👍

@carlosojeda1956 10 месяцев назад

My father would take either tunnel whenever my mom wanted to visit her sisters on the weekends, but I personally enjoyed the GW bridge .

@Nitro99999 2 года назад

Love it love it love it I love these videos they are accident kudos to you and I especially love when you do history on the city of New York

@danwallach8826 5 дней назад

Ten bucks a day in the middle of the Depression was good pay. Those men earned every cent.

@kwbalance108 2 года назад

The area above/around the tunnel entrances are soooo different from then til now (as expected!)

@anthonybarnett6828 2 года назад

It's amazing to me they could work with a slid rule and paper math. No tech help. That's brilliant

@GRosa250 2 года назад

I go through the tunnel all the time and I’ve taken my Harley (with straight pipes) through a few times. It’s extremely loud doing that.

@overzone666 2 года назад

Yeah. Some people complain about the noise, but it's necessary to stay safe

@johnnyd63 2 года назад

I still call "The Lincoln Funnel" 47 lanes from the Turnpike extension into 2 lanes. Avoid it like the plague

@idesofmarchUNIAEA Год назад

What they need is an elevated highway coming out of the Holland tunnel to go over the traffic lights, to get to the Jersey Turnpike. That's the next project. I think Robert Moses wanted to do something like that but they wouldn't let him

@mikeyfn-a6684 2 года назад

Thank ya man. Ive been going to the city from NJ alot more lately, and yours videos make me appreciate everything from the turnpike to the tunnels that much more. ,👌👍💯

@SilasBudman420 2 года назад

I’ve only been to nyc a handful of times but every time I’ve taken the Lincoln tunnel. Love it!!

@zach1810 2 года назад

As someone who lives in NJ and travels to NY by bus to the Port Authority. This tunnel is a wonderful. I would not want to go through the Holland or over the GWB. I can't imagine a trip to NYC any other way.

@donnamicci9996 Год назад

I lived in Manhattan for 40 years and just recently moved across the Hudson to Hoboken. I had a girlfriend who lived in Weehawken and like a jerk, used to drive over there and picked her up. It was an incredible nightmare trying to get through that awful, awful tunnel. If you don't go before 3 o'clock, you may never get there. Now that I live in Hoboken, I don't drive through either the Lincoln tunnel nor the Holland tunnel. I live very close to the PATH train and can get to Christopher Street in Greenwich Village from Hoboken in eight minutes. (I timed it just the other day. - 8:16). New York City especially is waging war on the automobile. No matter if it's electric or internal combustion. There is great great need for a third tunnel. However, this will never ever happen due to the attitude that the sky is falling due to "CLIMATE CRISIS" - which is 100% FICTION perpetuated by leftist GLOBALIST/ ELITES. Oh, you disagreed? If so, you should do yourself a great big, gigantic favor and do some research. The climate does change and has done sell for millennia. There is no climate crisis whatsoever. Do the research please so you will have knowledge and will not be frightened by toxic rhetoric. Peace my brothers and sisters. Note to author: I did not hear you mention the word "REMNANT" in this video. Your videos are very interesting but for some reason, we all have these verbal quirks, you pronounce the word REMNANT as R E M I N A N T. it's just FYI to do with as you please. ✌🏽

@gregblair5139 Год назад

The cost of driving between NY and NJ is outrageous. The toll for those that don't have an E-Zpass is $17 for a round trip (over $14 even with E-Zpass). This applies to the GW Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, as well at the Goethals, and Bayonne Bridges, and the Outerbridge Crossing (all Port Authority facilities). Tolls are collected NY bound only. They keep saying to use mass transit. However, depending an where you're coming from in New York and where you're going to in New Jersey (or vice-versa), that is not feasible and can take several more hours than driving.

@jorgedearmas2217 Год назад

Engineering and Art Deco masterpiece

@gabedellafave4655 7 месяцев назад

The Lincoln Tunnel is one of the most important civil engineering marvels in American history. As such, the Port Authority needs to remove those three billboards over the tunnel's NJ entrance. They take away so much from the beauty of the entrance. Can you imagine billboards along the Golden Gate Bridge?

@fitz283 Год назад

Thanks!

@19irving 2 года назад

I love going from the Manhattan side and coming out in Weehawken where the cliffs tower over you. And late at night, after the Manhattan hustle and bustle, it's almost quasi suburban and quiet to exit in NJ.

@JimAllen-Persona Год назад

Or early in the morning. I’ve had a couple of drop offs/pickups of family at Newark early in the morning and it’s beautiful to zip through both ways.

@tres5533 Год назад

Hey man, Great work! I am speechless at the result of human cooperation across cultures. A Norwegian Engineer building in NYC with Irish Immigrants working and WASP mgmt + financing This is amazing! I never forget all the men who build this when I travel through the tunnel. Cooperation is the key to any society's advancement and enlightenment. Thanks!

@life3.013 Год назад

I use to take that tunnel daily when I was living in NJ and working in Manhattan. My commute to time sq was average 6 mins the trip back home would take up to 3 hrs... Rush hr traffic

@westonkenyonmusic Год назад

Knew about the chunnel, but never knew about this until I went to NYC last Friday.

@flashcar60 2 года назад

Ditto. When my Manhattan friends ask how long it takes to reach the City from my home in NJ, I say anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours and 45 minutes. I listen to the news channels on radio to get a clue, but they are always 30 minutes behind in their statements about tunnel backups.

@boostpack609 2 года назад

As someone who grew up in fort Lee which is stones throw away from New York the holland tunnel while I find a marvel is also a huge pain in the ass to take I try to not take it if I have to

@jpsned 2 года назад

10:29 The movie theater is playing King Kong and Son of Kong. Both movies came out in 1933, with Son of Kong coming out in December of 1933--which probably dates this bit of film to early 1934. 🙂

@sheldonhchambliss1385 2 года назад

I love leaving ny going through this tunnel

@boricua007x Год назад

I’m taking a cruise leaving from Miami in November. I’m planning on taking the Orlando to Miami Brightline as the cruise terminal is only a 10 minute Uber drive to the Miami port. This saves me over $100 in parking fees

@brandonleague3641 2 года назад

...and now back to the Lincoln Tunnel. *goes straight into ad*

@ab2bw 2 года назад

I live in Lodi, NJ which is about 15 miles approx. to the northwest. It is truly a marvel of engineering and mostly human brute labor. I've traveled in both directions over the last four-plus decades and still marveled at it. The cost of the toll now has become an issue for me. It's still substantially easier than it must have been doing that commute with a ferry?

@battleangel5595 2 года назад

My grandparents kicked the bucket back in 1994. That was the last year me, my mother, and sister passed through the Lincoln Tunnel. Sure there was the occasional traffic jam in the tunnel, but as young as I was back then I felt safe. About as safe as one could be in a 1989 Nissan Pathfinder.

@Spedatr0n Год назад

So cool!

@ethandolny 2 года назад

I’ve never seen so many ads on a RU-vid video.. AND A PAID PROMOTION 😭

@e.blakebklyn5402 2 года назад

It's both and Engineering miracle and a daily pain-in-the-arse, we need another tunnel or bridge to jersey!!!!.

@larryn1929 2 года назад

I have driven both tunnels and all of the bridges....the traffic stinks.

@MrSloika 2 года назад

It does. Which is why this area doesn't need any more private motor vehicle traffic but future transportation projects should focus on mass transit...like a new train tunnel an possible extending the NYC subway across the river into NJ, like getting the 7 Train to Secaucus junction or extending the A Train across the GWB.

@dBREZ 7 месяцев назад

Mr First, Use to stand in line over night for concert tickets.

@Peaceinlove1432 5 месяцев назад

Can u believe the tunnel was complete in 1932 with less technically than now

@TheEarthHistorysConfusing 2 года назад

Cool share, Thanks

@rchrdgrn 2 года назад

I think part of the worth of the Lincoln Tunnel is it teaches new people how to drive in Manhattan. You learn pretty quick how to take your space as those 15 or so Lanes converging into 2.

@interwebtubes 2 года назад

Yeah I’ve been on a City bus which traveled through the Lincoln tunnel, I had absolutely no idea of the Origins. Of that tunnel , All I knew is how backed up the traffic was, and how slowly traffic was dragging along; I personally felt that the name of the tunnel was of some importance; But, that’s life in the big city, Nice report tho

@aprylrittenhouse4562 2 года назад

I just subscribed. I had a steroid shot b in my left hand so I can't play guitar for a cple days. I love your videos. It takes my mind off the scariest of a numb hand.

@bimbi654 Год назад

What a marvel 👏

@markp5762 2 года назад

Props dude. Where do you find these photographs and detailed information.

@superdriver777 2 года назад

10:19 and 10:33 should be "Works Progress Administration (WPA)" but, regardless, great video!

@davidjaslow6458 Месяц назад

I lived 53 years within 3 miles of the Lincoln Tunnel. A Total Nightmare. The Tunnel Decided if you could come and go anywhere in North Hudson.

@izzysantiago978 2 года назад

We need a tunnel with 8 lanes nowadays. These tunnels were made for small amount traffic for it's time. Time to Upgrade!!

@mmcgahn5948 2 года назад

How would 8 lanes empty into Manhattan?

@ronalddean3630 2 года назад

@@mmcgahn5948 that was going to be my question, I don't live there but as I recall, there is no place to expand horizontally, correct?

@SpareThree 2 года назад

I was riding the Paterson/Passaic bus through the tunnel when a teenager talked about how he hoped the bus didn’t “poke a hole” in the tunnel 😆 by crashing.

@godbluffvdgg 2 года назад

Great video on an important east coast city...

@kennethng8346 6 месяцев назад

yes, both

@danielfrusco1520 2 года назад

I remember my mom telling me my father had a panic attach when the drove through the tunnel in the late 50's and the police that ride on those carts had too take him out.

@rturney6376 Год назад

I grew up in NJ it was key NYC living ❤🎉😊

@promiscuous5761 2 года назад

Thank you..

@weebaroni9864 2 года назад

You got it the first time its a pain in the ass to drive to NYC

@jimc5096 Год назад

When I first moved to NJ I stayed at a friends who lived in the 3rd building out of the tunnel on Willow Ave. The tunnel always amazed me, but at the same time I found it to be a royal pain not only when going into the city but dealing with the traffice noise. Although that was over 30 year ago, I still miss it.

@aalmo88 Год назад

I drive for FedEx an one two of our station near the Lincoln tunnel. It’s a pain wen u trying to get into the tunnel Bt once u get in its a moving function.

@brendanlynch2138 Год назад

Should make a video on the H&M tubes

@twizz420 2 года назад

This tunnel is just begging for some 2-step V8 goodness

@allynwithay 2 года назад

I drove a bus thru Lincoln Tunnel was over 24 years a quick estimate of over 50000 trips. I also had to back out two 60 foot buses because of traffic accident.