Lincoln Tunnel — Attraction in Weehawken

Is sitting a half mile away from the tunnel rolling inches every minute your thing? How about getting to the city in the morning knowing, no matter what, you'll be late? What if I told you there's a special offer for anyone who is going INTO the city at off-hours and weekends? Well, read on! You'll definitely look forward to staying away from this tunnel… or a road vehicle after you read this review!

Be it 7am in the morning or 9pm in the night, some direction gets stuck in inching traffic because of the Port Authority's endless crap-ton of roadwork around the beloved "helix." It's not enough that your mornings are spent on the road that affects some people's majority of their life, but going into NYC at hours you don't expect traffic surprises you with traffic as well. I'll give you some advice: it'll only be worse than what the commuters face.

So you might be wondering… public transport must be better, right? You'd bet that'd only be PARTIALLY correct. The best way into New York City at this rate is via trains (NJ Transit Rail & PATH.) Think about it… only if the train dispatcher unleashed 8 trains into the NYC-bound tunnels at the same time would really delay the railways (which never really happens unless a train breaks down… which, sad for the other end of NJ, only the Atlantic City Rail Line really breaks down.) The worst, as you can tell, is the bus. Hey, at least this means you can complain with all the other bus passengers...

The Lincoln Tunnel is filled with traffic most of the time. during the evening it's always bumper to bumper, traffic builds and spreads to the near by blocks which makes it harder to travel near the tunnel area during rush hour. Traffic must be properly guided near the tunnel areas during Peak Rush Hour. There are some New York City traffic agency station there but however that's not enough to deal with the traffic crisis, the tunnel is still backed up on a regular basis. Furthermore the tunnel must fitted with wider Lanes and better dividers, as accidents often occur do t0 drivers getting frustrated with the traffic in the tunnel causing the drivers to change lanes and getting into an accident. This on the backs up the tunnel even more. The tunnel has Lane dividers only on the entrance and the exit however there are no in dividers in between. Another issue with the tunnel is that so many buses and trucks flooded the tunnel. This only adds to the growing crisis of traffic in this tunnel. New York City should consider making one of the tunnels only for buses and trucks. So the other tunnels could move freely with passenger car hopefully causing traffic to be reduced significantly. City officials are not taking proper actions to ensure the traffic is moving fluently In these tunnel.

Also what's up with the toll? Why is the total so much for passenger cars and...

I give it 5 stars for being built in the great depression!

Moreover for being an exercise of how patient, cool and professional you can be or how nasty and disgusting your personality can get as all lanes merge sometimes to one lane including busses where everyone is thinking that he should have the right of the road first! 🙄

The Lincoln Tunnel was originally proposed in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the Midtown Hudson Tunnel. The tubes of the Lincoln Tunnel were constructed in stages between 1934 and 1957. Construction of the central tube, which originally lacked sufficient funding due to the Great Depression, started in 1934 and it opened in 1937. The northern tube started construction in 1936, was delayed due to World War II-related material shortages, and opened in 1945. Although the original plans for the Lincoln Tunnel called for two tubes, a third tube to the south of the existing tunnels was planned in 1950 due to high traffic demand on the other two tubes. The third tube started construction in 1954, with the delay attributed to disputes over tunnel approaches, and it opened in 1957. Since then, the Lincoln Tunnel has undergone a series of gradual improvements, including changes to security and...