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I would've expected more too but per the Wiki list while it and some other midwestern cities have them, they don't seem to have them in quite the volume of the other places. What Cincy does have is numerous staircases though, which I suppose is another interesting thing that hilly cities would tend to have. Not as many as Pittsburgh or San Francisco mind you, but a decent number.
Its not the amount of tunnels that's the topic, but cities with long tunnels and narrow tunnels which give a certain character to a place (and also often affect traffic ). Especially those that cause bottlenecks by merging more lanes into fewer, and toll plazas, and those that are very long and dark and cause people to drive slowly.
Its not the amount of tunnels that's the topic, but cities with long tunnels and narrow tunnels which give a certain character to a place (and also often affect traffic ). Especially those that cause bottlenecks by merging more lanes into fewer, and toll plazas, and those that are very long and dark and cause people to drive slowly.
Agreed. But then there are modern tunnels that serve a high traffic count and mean a lot to a city's traffic system.
In my hometown of Seattle, there are a number of examples of this. First, in 1940, US Highway 10 was built into two (2-lane) tunnels from Mercer Island to downtown Seattle. They still exist today, but have been coupled with an additional 4 lanes of tunnel at the same location and became I-90 in the early 60's though the additional tunnels didn't get built until the late 80's.
Seattle also has one of the more interesting tunnel projects in the country right now. The Hwy 99 (Alaskan Way corridor) is set to open later this year. The previous corridor offered a double decker highway along the waterfront (deemed unsafe after the 2001 quake), but also contained the "Battery Street Tunnel", which took drivers from the waterfront to the Seattle Center area.
The new tunnel, (while delayed over the years), is now nearly complete. The new tunnel replaces the double decker highway, and also skirts around the old Battery Street tunnel.
While this will be a toll route, I think it will be a nice secondary N/S route through downtown. I can't wait to drive it!
Chicago has had this for getting close to a century. It was in Daniel Burnham's 1909 plan to rebuild Chicago's lakefront and changes to its street-grid. Lower and upper Wacker Drive was built.
It's been added to and rebuilt since its original build. Much is like a tunnel. Some might note the "Dark Knight scene of Batman on his bat-cycle driving thru its underground.....
This also shows aspects of it in a preview to the new 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt. Driving thru parts. Though most here is more its open sections but parts of its deeper areas can be seen and arts separated by a gate. It also spreads out into newer areas of skyscrapers in a network for deliveries.
Maybe true as far as vehicular traffic tunnels goes, but the city has numerous amounts of tunnels for various other reasons than vehicular traffic.
And the 9th street tunnel you cannot see all the way through to the other side, it goes underneath the national mall and you don't exit until your in SW.
The office buildings of Jeff Davis highway in Crystal City, Arlington Virginia, have interconnecting pedestrian tunnels totalling about a Mile long, with shops inside them. Although it's been over 30 years since I've been there.
Montreal, Canada, downtown, has several miles of underground pedestrian tunnels, lined with shops. A welcome respite from the city's brutally cold winters.
"Underground Atlanta" - downtown, was very popular during the 1970s, but was then converted from an entertainment into a shopping complex, and then one level of it was finally closed last year.
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Pittsburgh has the Armstrong Tunnel is downtown Pittsburgh. This tunnel burrows beneath Duquesne University and connects to the 10th Street Bridge. The Armstrong Tunnel has a cool curve.
There is a network of tunnels under parts of downtown St. Louis but not intended for routine vehicular traffic. Some are associated with the train station and some are part of the brewery neighborhood. Some were natural caves that were modified into tunnels in the 1800s.
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