This turnpike was once called the "tunnel highway" because it had 7 of them, including the Allegheny
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....Pennsylvania Turnpike.....Pennsylvania Turnpike Tunnels ...  pennsylvania turnpike allegheny tunnel PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE ... The Commission has selected the "brown cut" as the preferred alternative. ... Turnpike as the "tunnel highway" because the roadway ran through seven tunnels as ... the York, Pennsylvania engineering firm of Buchart-Horn was called upon to study the...
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The Turnpike's Allegheny Tunnel - Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike  Three the seven tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's original 160-mile, 56- year-old ... Similar fate may await the Allegheny Tunnel approximately 60 miles east of ... for addressing them and environmental constraints associated with each option. ... even though the Turnpike's early "Tunnel Highway" moniker has faded.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike - Wikipedia  The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a toll highway operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike .... The turnpike then comes to the Allegheny Valley exit in Harmar Township, ..... Since 2009, the turnpike has raised tolls once a year, starting on January 1, ..... Blue Mountain Tunnel, and the road became known as the "tunnel highway".
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The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike - Back in Time - General ...  Called the "Tunnel Highway" or "America's Super Highway," the seven-tunnel Pennsylvania Turnpike opened 60 years later in the fall of 1940 as a four-lane highway. ... Tuscarora, and Allegheny Mountain tunnels with new parallel tunnels, and to ... This stretch of paved roadway has not gone unused in the last 40 years.
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Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike - Wikipedia  The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the ... in 1940, it was known as the "Tunnel Highway" because it traversed seven tunnels: from east to west, Blue Mountain, Kittatinny Mountain, Tuscarora Mountain, Sideling Hill, Rays Hill, Allegheny Mountain, and Laurel Hill.
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The National Road - First Highway in America  ... what was first called the Cumberland Road that would connect Cumberland, Maryland to the Ohio River. ... The National Road built in 1811 makes a path through the states of Illinois, Indiana, ... It also became a corridor of moving goods and supplies. .... National Road Corridor Historic District in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia  A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed ... Germany began to build its first 30-kilometre (19 mi) autobahn .... These original high-speed roads were referred to as "dual highways" and, while ... of the Bonn-Cologne autobahn began in 1929 and was opened in 1932 by the...
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The World's 20 Most Impressive Tunnels - Popular Mechanics  Apr 7, 2016 ... Construction has been going on for nearly 20 years, but the Gotthard ... The initial 1970s idea of using a tunnel-boring machine didn't work with the rock here. ... centers in the cities of Kawasaki and Kisarazu, the government built an 8.6-mile long bridge-tunnel hybrid, the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line, in 1997.
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Overseas Highway - Wikipedia  The Overseas Highway is a 113-mile (181.9 km) highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through ... Construction on the original Overseas Highway, designated State Road 4A (an ... 73 on the current highway, eight concrete bridge piers and a small dredged island ..... "ACROSS 42 BRIDGES THROUGH FLORIDA'S KEYS".
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A look at the history of New York City's tunnels and bridges - NY ...  Apr 11, 2016 ... There are more than 2000 bridges and tunnels in and around New York City. ... When the Brooklyn Bridge opened in May of 1883, it was an engineering achievement ... When the Holland Tunnel opened in 1927, it was the longest ... At the time, it was groundbreaking not just because of its length but...
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Toll road - Wikipedia  A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private roadway for which a fee (or .... Roads radiating from Toronto required users to pay at toll gates along the street (Yonge Street, .... The first section of another all-electronic toll road, the Triangle Expressway, opened at the beginning of 2012 in North Carolina.
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Place names in West Virginia: Odd and True and ... - The Economist  Jun 21, 2014 ... The Mountain State's genius for naming its towns. ... EVERY American state has a town or two to make a traveller smile or shudder. ... Meander on mountain roads south from Nitronamed after the ... What lies behind it all? ... only one completely within a mountain range, the Appalachiansresembles a...
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Photos: The Arroyo Seco Parkway, The First Freeway, Turns 75 : LAist  Dec 30, 2015 ... The first Highland Park segment of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (Photo ... which connects downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena, opened 75 years ago today and is considered by many to be the first freeway in the United States. ... during the Great Depression, the six-lane freeway first opened to cars on Dec.
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The Durango Herald 06/24/2014 | Highway to hell  Jun 25, 2014 ... Red Mountain Pass has a legacy of death, but its allure lives on ... the north side of Red Mountain Pass on U.S. Highway 550 near Ouray, ... When was it paved? ... Railroads reached Silverton and Ouray, but transportation of ore to the ... This month, USA Today named the Million Dollar Highway one of the...
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The National Road - Back in Time - General Highway History ...  The National Road, in many places known as Route 40, was built between 1811 and 1834 to ... It would connect Cumberland, Maryland to the Ohio River. In 1811 the first contract was awarded and the first 10 miles of road built. ... were then built by the states, with the federal government taking responsibility for road repairs.
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Pennsylvania Highways: Johnstown Flood  Jan 27, 2015 ... History and pictures about the numerous floods to hit Johnstown. ... temporary dam with more violence than how the original dam disintegrated. .... It did that in 1936 when it carried almost 4,000 to safety and again in 1977, when it not only ..... Damage in the seven county disaster area totaled $200 million,...
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Lincoln Tunnel - New World Encyclopedia  Sep 28, 2016 ... By allowing for more car and bus traffic with its opening in 1945, the Lincoln ... with construction of the first of its three tubes under the Hudson River ... The Lincoln Tunnel runs under the Hudson River to join New Jersey to New ... the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the tunnel is again presumed to be a...
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Interstate 90 - Wikipedia  Interstate 90 (I-90) is a transcontinental freeway, and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at 3,020.54 miles ... East of the Wisconsin-Illinois border, much of I-90 follows several toll roads, ... Massachusetts Turnpike, and the Ted Williams Tunnel are all toll roads used by .... It also passes north of Angola at I-69.
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Massachusetts Turnpike - Wikipedia  The Massachusetts Turnpike is the easternmost 138-mile (222 km) stretch of Interstate 90. ... It is also the easternmost portion of Interstate 90. ... Inner Belt to Newton with connections with US 20 and Route 30 for traffic continuing west. .... The Massachusetts Turnpike is a toll road; the 2009 reform law requires tolls collected...
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History - Holland Tunnel - The Port Authority of NY & NJ  Opening in 1927 the tunnel operated under the guise of the two state ... The first Hudson River vehicular crossing, the Holland Tunnel connects Canal Street in ... As a tribute, it bears the name of its first chief engineer, Clifford M. Holland, who ... for the construction of many underwater vehicular tunnels throughout the world.
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Facts - CBBT Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel  What's New ... Travel Information ... The Bridge-Tunnel project is a four-lane 20-mile-long vehicular toll crossing of the lower Chesapeake Bay. The facility carries US 13, the main north-south highway on Virginia's Eastern Shore, and provides the only direct ... Official Name: Lucius J. Kellam, Jr. Bridge-Tunnel ... Read More...