Lincoln Tunnel Expressway
| Lincoln Tunnel Expressway | |
|---|---|
| Route information | |
| Length: | 0.80 mi (1.29 km) |
| Component highways: |
 NY 495 (unsigned) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end: | West 30th Street in Hudson Yards |
| North end: | Lincoln Tunnel (NY 495) in Hell's Kitchen |
| Highway system | |
The Lincoln Tunnel Expressway is an eight block-long, mostly four-lane, north-south arterial road between the portals of the Lincoln Tunnel and West 30th Street in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Dyer Avenue is an at-grade roadway paralleling part of the mostly depressed roadway and serves traffic entering and leaving the expressway and the tubes of the tunnel. Like the tunnel, the roads are owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. They traverse the Manhattan neighborhoods of Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea between Ninth and Tenth avenues.
In 1937, a number of buildings in neighborhood were demolished to construct the 75-foot-wide (23 m) right-of-way of provide access to the first (now center) tube of the Lincoln Tunnel which opened in December of that year. Dyer Avenue is named after General George Rathborne Dyer, who was the chairman of the board of the PANYNJ and died while the tunnel was under construction.
In 1951, the PANYNJ decided to construct a third tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. This project included the approach roads in Manhattan and Hudson County, New Jersey as outlined in the Joint Study of Arterial Facilities which had been commissioned by the agency and the Triborough Bridge Authority. The tube was completed in 1957 at a cost of $85 million.
The Lincoln Tunnel Expressway was built at the cost of $10 to $11 million and completed around the same time as the third tube. In constructing the approach highway, engineers had to build a bridge under an existing bridge, provide two twin tunnels and five viaducts, depress and elevate part of the roadbed as necessary, and develop an intricate network of entrance and exit ramps at intermediate points. As part of the expressway design, ramps were constructed to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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