16 Facts About Lincoln Tunnel

Lincoln Tunnel was originally proposed in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the Midtown Hudson Tunnel.

Since then, the Lincoln Tunnel has undergone a series of gradual improvements, including changes to security and tolling methods.

Lincoln Tunnel is one of two automobile tunnels built under the Hudson River, the other being the Holland Tunnel between Jersey City, New Jersey and Lower Manhattan.

The Lincoln Tunnel is one of six tolled crossings in the New York area owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Emergency services at the Lincoln Tunnel are provided by the Port Authority's Tunnel and Bridge Agents, who are stationed at the Port Authority's crossings.

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The primary entrance roadways for the Lincoln Tunnel are Galvin Avenue, as well as the Lincoln Tunnel Expressway and the southern two sections of Dyer Avenue.

New Jersey Transit operates fifty-seven interstate bus routes through the Lincoln Tunnel, as do numerous regional and long-distance companies.

The first trans-Hudson vehicular tunnel, the Holland Lincoln Tunnel downstream connecting Jersey City, New Jersey, with Lower Manhattan, was under construction at the time.

Weehawken–Manhattan tunnel, along with the Triborough Lincoln Tunnel linking the East Side of Manhattan with the New York City borough of Queens, would help facilitate traffic to and from Midtown Manhattan.

The Port Authority began a study on whether local streets near the Lincoln Tunnel's existing approaches could accommodate traffic from a third tube.

Weehawken's government still held a negative attitude toward the Lincoln Tunnel digging work, and in June 1953, ordered policemen to arrest workers who were bringing equipment into the tunnel, under the pretense that the tunnel lacked a building permit.

The elephants started walking through the Queens–Midtown Tunnel instead of the Lincoln Tunnel starting in 1981, and the elephant walk ceased altogether when the elephants were retired in 2016.

Lincoln Tunnel was used several times more by criminal suspects trying to escape the police.

In 1956, a motorist, whose car had been taken by police, stole his own car in Manhattan, then sped through the Lincoln Tunnel and opened fire on pursuing police before being stopped on the George Washington Bridge.

Originally, the Lincoln Tunnel would have connected to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, on the other side of Manhattan, via the Mid-Manhattan Expressway.

E-ZPass toll collection at Lincoln Tunnel started in October 1997, although the tollbooths were retained.