The Lincoln Tunnel and the helix that drops traffic down the Palisades
Lincoln Tunnel Helix, Weehawken, New Jersey
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The first tube opened on 22 December 1937 and 7,661 cars paid fifty cents to use it that day. The New Jersey side had a problem Manhattan did not: King's Bluff, the Palisades cliff standing between the portal and the highway. Engineers answered with a three quarter circle of roadway winding down the rock face, which drivers called the corkscrew. Two more tubes followed in 1945 and 1957, and since 1970 one lane of the approach has been reversed every weekday morning for buses alone.
Similar places Lock 27, where the whole Mississippi goes around a ledge of rock 1953 · Chouteau Island, Granite City, Illinois Chicago River reversed 1900 · Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago Airport Circle, one of the first traffic circles in the country 1927 · Pennsauken, New Jersey Harrison station, where the tubes reached the factory town 1911 · Harrison, New Jersey Bergenline Avenue station, 160 feet under the Palisades 2006 · Bergenline Avenue at 48th Street, Union City, New Jersey
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