Talk:Lincoln Tunnel

Question

Would anyone mind if I substituted {{NYC Hudson River crossings}} with {{Hudson River crossings}}? --Chris 19:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Expansion

Compare this article to the Holland Tunnel. This could use some major expansion. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:NYC Hudson River crossings

Template:NYC Hudson River crossings has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:NYC Hudson River crossings. Thank you. --Chris 16:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

pic?martianlostinspace 15:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Incidents in the tunnel

On the 31st May 2007, a Gilberto Cantu drove a 13ft 6 inch tall truck through the 13 foot tall tunnel, causing some damage to decorative tiles. [1] --85.92.186.68 23:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

What photo is needed?

There's a request for a photo here but I don't quite understand what is being asked for. The article seems to be pretty well covered with nice pictures already. Adam Di Carlo (talk) 17:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

XBL capacity error?

I'm not sure if this statement is entirly true "The lane operates weekday mornings between 6:15 and 10:00 a.m., accommodating approximately 1,700 buses and 62,000 commuters, mainly to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.The XBL carries more trans-Hudson commuter trips into midtown Manhattan each day than any other mode, including commuter rail into Penn Station."

I've found that on pdf by PANYNJ that yearly NJT ridership to penn station was 46 million, that divided by 365, then again divided by two (for morning and evening commute) is just over 63,000 commuters. Also from NJ.com they said that NJT ridership to NYP was about 70,000.

I'm not going to say that NJT definetly carries more cummuters than the XBL, but that right now the information on both XBL and NJT ridership is not up-to-date engough to say that one is more efective than the other.

I recomend the statement The XBL carries more trans-Hudson commuter trips into midtown Manhattan each day than any other mode, including commuter rail into Penn Station. be changed to The ridership on the XBL is about the same as New Jersey Tranits commuter rail into Penn Station. --Mannybrown1 (talk) 19:11, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Facts to be included

• Construction started:May 17, 1934
• Opened to traffic (north tube):February 4, 1945
• Opened to traffic (center tube):December 22, 1937
• Opened to traffic (south tube):May 25, 1957
• Number of tubes: 3
• Number of traffic lanes: 5
• Length between portals (north tube):7,482 feet
• Length between portals (center tube):8,216 feet
• Length between portals (south tube):8,006 feet
• Operating headroom of tunnel:13 feet
• External diameter of tunnel:31 feet
• Maximum depth, mean high water to roadway:97 feet

The opening of article is misleading. It is actually three tubes collectively known as The Lincoln Tunnel, each which different opening dates and lengths Only two have a highway designation. Seems these details would be approppriate for a encyclopedia. May come back to it, unless someone would like to take it on.

Removal of new "In popular culture" section

This was removed on the basis that the source needs to be included "to establish significance". Is the source not the book itself? Reference the "In popular culture" section in the article on Boulder, Colorado Noonand (talk) 15:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

No. Signifance would be established via a third-party source that discusses the tunnel's apperance in the book. WP should not include lists of every time any object is discussed in media without any indication that the appearance was notable in some manner. I've reviewed the linked article; tagged it and removed a couple of entries that were unsourced since January. Cheers. Doniago (talk) 16:08, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

busiest tunnel

The assertion that this is one of the busiest tunnels in the world seems ridiculous. Vista Ridge Tunnels in Portland has 20–25% more average traffic, and there is plenty of room for expansion, especially at off hours. Also, the tunnel in Treasure Island which connects the Bay Bridge segments has 250% more traffic. Is the only authority for this assertion from the tunnel operator itself? —EncMstr (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Lacking any response, I have removed the dubious and unsupported assertion. The remaining content seems reasonable and adequately supported. —EncMstr (talk) 20:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Recently, the assertion that the Lincoln Tunnel is the world's busiest was re-added and cited to the tunnel operator. The cited figure is 120,000 ADT which is such light traffic it is hard to imagine it could be the world's busiest. Portland, Oregon has a tunnel with significantly more traffic—139,000 in 2011—so it is quite reasonable to expect that there are many other vehicle tunnels which are much busier—like those near Paris, Toyko, Moscow, etc. —EncMstr (talk) 22:07, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Going to take out the entire sentence - too much doubt. In any case, the SF Bay Bridge doesn't incorporate a formal singular count for its two tunnels. And truth be told, the Trans-Manhattan Expressway tunnel underneath the apartments just east of the George Washington Bridge is likely the busiest.

Castncoot (talk) 04:52, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

1953 shooting

There's a paragraph on an incident in 1953 where two men tried to escape the police by driving through the tunnel. The article identifies them as Peter Simon and John Metcalfe, but this court document calls them Harry Inberman and "Irving Leibowitz, also known as John Metcalfe". Also, the details of the crime - and it appears to be the same crime - are very different. The problem is that the totality of the sources in favour of Wikipedia's version are either behind a paywall, or are copies of Wikipedia. What really happened? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:23, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

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Connection to the Port Authority parking deck?

Isn't there limited direct connections to the parking deck bounded by 40th St, 9th Ave, 41st St, and 8th Ave? My impression is that buses use those ramps to access a depot or transit station there. Will (Talk - contribs)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Lincoln Tunnel/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: AmericanAir88 (talk · contribs) 18:47, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Will start over the weekend. AmericanAir88 (talk) 18:47, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: AmericanAir88 (talk) 21:11, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Issues

• "An integral conduit within the New York metropolitan area, it was designed by Norwegian-born civil engineer Ole Singstad and named after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln."

Rework that sentence. "Integral conduit" is a very confusing phrase.

 Done

• "The Lincoln Tunnel underwent a series of gradual improvements in following decades."

Elaborate more or if its too detailed to get into-remove it.

 Done. I did not elaborate too much as it's supposed to only be a summary.

• Talk about cashless tolling in the intro and make the statement about east bound toll into its own sentence.

   Done the second point. I don't think the first point is necessary as it's not an essential part of the article.

• "Although the three portals are side by side in New Jersey, in New York City the north tube portal is near Eleventh Avenue between 38th and 39th Streets."

Could use some reworking

 Done

• Update the article so instead of "tollbooth" it is "tolls"

  It is still technically correct that these are tollbooths. The Port Authority hasn't replaced the tollbooths here with electronic tolling. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

• "Westbound traffic does not pay a toll, and so the westbound portion of the toll plaza does not have tollbooths"

   Fixed

Rework this sentence and also do what the issue above says to do

• "In Manhattan, Dyer Avenue and the Lincoln Tunnel Expressway serve as the primary egress roadways for the Lincoln Tunnel"

Add better punctuation/grammar and find a better word than "egress"

•  Done

• The first paragraph of "Manhattan approaches" needs to be more fluent and less choppy.

   Done

• "This is marked as the last exit in New York."

Please add the Exit number

 Not done. This exit is not numbered so I can't add an exit number. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

• "The tube's Manhattan entrance would be located anywhere between 23rd and 42nd Streets, while the New Jersey entrance might be located between Hoboken and Weehawken."

Elaborate more and find better words than "might be"

 Done, found better words.

• "The preliminary plans included a "mixing plaza", where traffic from the Midtown Hudson Tunnel would interchange with traffic from the tunnel to Queens."

Elaborate more

 Done

• "The tube was to be bored using the shield-tunneling method, and shields would proceed from both sides at the same time, although the shield on the New York side would pass through a caisson for the tunnel."

Fix up and expand

 Done

• "These buildings, located in the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, were seen as either "insanitary and dangerous" or "likely to become so"."

Elaborate more on this. More info on the buildings being destroyed makes interesting facts. Also don't let quotes be the creators of the sentence.

I left out details about the building because this isn't really an article about the buildings, but in any case, I reworded. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

• " The reporter L.H. Robbins wrote a descriptive account of the construction work, calling the tunnel shield a "Steel Hercules", the sandhogs "ox-strong, rough-clad", and the tunnel itself akin to "a bit of the realm of Tartarus".

Clean this sentence up a bit. It is very choppy.

 Done

• "The tunneling work posed some danger: a dynamite accident in April 1935 killed three sandhogs."

Any more information on this?

I don't think this necessarily needs more information. I just mentioned that people died during construction because of a tunneling accident. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

• "Bids for installing electrical ducts were let in August 1936."

Expand more

I simply removed this information since it wasn't important. epicgenius (talk) 23:46, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

• "Different toll rates applied to tractor-trailers and motorcycles; pedestrians, animals, and bicyclists were prohibited from using the tunnel."

Split these and elaborate more on both.

 Done

*"A groundbreaking ceremony for the third tube was held the next month at the Manhattan side's future ventilation shaft, and sandhogs began digging the tunnel from that end."

Is this a pun? If not explain what was so "groundbreaking"

This is not a pun. A groundbreaking ceremony is common practice at construction. It is mostly self-explanatory - a ceremony where the first official construction work is performed on a project. Anyhow, I explained it. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

*I-495 also applies to the Brooklyn-battery tunnel, not just the LIE.

• No, the Battery Tunnel is Interstate 478. I-495 is only the LIE, which starts at the QMT. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

*Isn't "Cashless" tolling now at the Lincoln Tunnel? If it is then change cash to "pay by plate". Also mention cashless in the Toll section.

• No, as I explained above. Cashless tolling is only at Bayonne Bridge and the MTA Bridges and Tunnels. Lincoln Tunnel is a Port Authority project. You still pay cash or E-ZPass (and E-ZPass on its own is not notable enough for a mention in the lead). epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

• Would an "In popular culture" section work?

I know of a couple movies and TV shows with the Lincoln tunnel

I'll get back to you on that. Any addition should be compliant with WP:POPCULTURE, it must be both important and reliably sourced. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

*Shouldn't the Holland Tunnel be in "See also"? It is very similar and does the same route.

• No, per WP:SEEALSO. Links that are already in the article shouldn't get mentioned in a see-also section. As it is, the Holland Tunnel is mentioned in the lead. epicgenius (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: I feel the only notable "In popular culture" candidate would be the movie "Daylight". I guess the idea of its own section is not adequate. Do you think the mention of daylight should be in the article? AmericanAir88 (talk) 00:14, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: I'm not sure. I think the popular culture section, if there is any, should only include entries for which the Lincoln Tunnel was a key feature, otherwise the list would grow to unencyclopedic proportions (e.g. Empire State Building in popular culture, Central Park in popular culture). epicgenius (talk) 00:17, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: The Lincoln Tunnel is not present as a key feature very much. The only notable appearance that I know of is "Daylight". Should a mention of daylight appear in the article? AmericanAir88 (talk) 00:21, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: I think that was the Holland Tunnel, not the Lincoln Tunnel. I didn't find anything about the Lincoln being in Daylight.

@Epicgenius: My mistake!.

Pass

Congratulations on Passing. You have done excellent work on this article and I really admire your dedication. You are a pleasure to work with and an important attribute to Wikipedia. Me (A New York commuter to an office every day) have learned so much from you AmericanAir88 (talk) 00:46, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

infobox image

Does anyone support the attempt to replace the infobox image  :file:Inside Lincoln Tunnel NY NJ.jpg with :file:lincoln-tunnel.jpg ? The new photo is better lit, but is blurred and suffers from distracting, excessive glaring, in my opinion. I think it is not an improvement. Meters (talk) 01:12, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

I agree; the newer photo is not an improvement because it is blurred and overexposed. Imzadi 1979 → 01:18, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Missing mentions of the one-man miniature electric cars for tunnel police that operated once in the Lincoln Tunnel catwalks

Similarly to the Holland Tunnels, the tunnel police once had a one-man miniature electric car for tunnel police, one in each direction along the catwalks. This is mentioned in the Holland Tunnel article but not here. We should add at least a mention of it. See: https://tiremeetsroad.com/2018/11/28/catwalk-cars-totally-strange-yet-cool-way-new-york-police-travelled-around-in-tunnels/ --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 20:18, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Art Deco Ventilation Shaft?

Article claims there is an "art deco ventilation shaft" west of 12th Ave. I am aware of a ventilation building at 11th Ave. and 39th St., and I believe that's also a secondary function of the ferry building at 12th Ave., but neither of these buildings are styled art deco, or even anything remotely close. They're unadorned brown brick buildings with no windows or color or decoration or ornamentation of any kind. So...pretty much exactly the opposite of art deco. If there's another vent shaft somewhere that's art deco, I want to know more about it!

The citation goes to a wayback machine of a google book but the page listed (59) isn't available there (or at least won't load for me). I was unable to find any other source on the Internet for that claim. 173.68.93.245 (talk) 21:04, 27 March 2024 (UTC)