what was the need for this vehicular tunnel?
The public learned of the excessive traffic loads on existing boat routes, as well as the limited capacity of the H&M and North River Tunnels, when the surface of the Hudson River froze in winter 1917, and again when Pennsylvania Railroad workers went on strike in winter 1918
Holland Tunnel
At the same time, freight traffic in the Port of New York and New Jersey was mostly carried on boats, but traffic had grown to such a point that the boats were at full capacity, and some freight started going to other ports in the United States. To alleviate this, officials proposed building a freight railroad tunnel, but this was blocked by the organized syndicates that held influence over much of the port's freight operations. The public learned of the excessive traffic loads on existing boat routes, as well as the limited capacity of the H&M and North River Tunnels, when the surface of the Hudson River froze in winter 1917, and again when Pennsylvania Railroad workers went on strike in winter 1918. One engineer suggested that three freight railroad tunnels would be cheaper to construct than one bridge.
what does the holland tunnel look like underwater UNANSWERABLE what is this tunnel? It is a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River is this tunnel built to connect cities? Yes, Lower Manhattan with Jersey City does the river flow through these aforementioned cities? Yes are there any other tunnels build under this river? Yes, Lincoln Tunnel who are the operating authority for the tunnel mentioned at the beginning? Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) when was the aforementioned authority established? 1921 does the tunnel (mentioned at the beginning) consists of tubes? Yes, a pair of tubes who is the chief engineer on the project? Clifford Milburn Holland how is the underwater tunnel ventilated? It contains a system of vents that run transverse, or perpendicular, to the tubes does the tunnel have toll plazas? It had but now open road tolling is implemented
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Holland Tunnel [SEP] Need for vehicular tunnel
Until the first decade of the 20th century, passage across the lower Hudson River was possible only by ferry. The first tunnels to be bored below the Hudson River were for railroad use. The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (now PATH) constructed two pairs of tubes to link the major railroad terminals in New Jersey with Manhattan Island: the Uptown Hudson Tubes, which opened in 1908, and the Downtown Hudson Tubes, which opened in 1909. The Pennsylvania Railroad's twin North River Tunnels, constructed to serve the new Pennsylvania Station, opened in 1910. The construction of these three tunnels proved that tunneling under the Hudson River was feasible.