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Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Highway 177 and Highway 18, Manhattan
102 Monitor
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Federal Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways
Author: National GeographicPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426219059
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States
Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways
Author: Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426210140
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.
National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways
Author: National GeographicPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426200564
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Expanded to include all U.S. designated America's Byways as well as other selected drives in all 50 states, this stunning new edition features unique driving tours through virtually every kind of landscape--spectacular coastlines, mountains, lakes, small towns, ranches and farmlands, islands, bays, and river valleys.
Tuttle Creek Dam Safety Assurance Program, Big Blue River
Author: South Arterial Construction, Ft.Riley Blvd to US-24, Manhattan
Author: Federal Highway Administration Office of Motor Carriers Register
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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Highway Under the Hudson
Author: Robert W. JacksonPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814742998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Every year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's 1.6 mile corridor on a daily basis, and yet few know much about this amazing feat of early 20th-century engineering. How was it built, by whom, and at what cost? These and many other questions are answered in Highway under the Hudson, Robert W. Jackson's story about this seminal structure in the history of urban transportation. In this meticulously researched work, Jackson provides the first complete history of the planning, financing and construction of the Holland Tunnel. Dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World" when it opened in 1927, the Holland Tunnel was the longest vehicular tunnel in the world st the time of its construction. In Highway under the Hudson, Jackson explains the economic forces which led to the need for the tunnel, and details the extraordinary political and social politicking that took place on both sides of the Hudson River to enable its construction. He introduces us to important figures in the tunnel's history, such as New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, who, more than anyone else, made the dream of a tunnel a reality; George Washington Goethals (builder of the Panama Canal and namesake of the Goethals bridge), the first chief engineer of the project; engineers Ole Singstad, who designed the ventilation system, and Clifford Holland, the chief engineer for whom the tunnel is named; New Jersey Bridge and Tunnel commissioners Thomas Albeus Adams and John F. Boyle, who tried to profit from the tunnel's construction; Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, who blocked completion of the tunnel until the New York Bridge and Tunnel Commission agreed to pay for street improvements in his city; and the compressed-air workers (called "sandhogs") who risked their lives to build the tunnel. Fully illustrated with more than 50 beautiful photographs and drawings, Jackson's story of the Holland Tunnel is one of great human drama, with heroes and villains, that illustrates how great things are accomplished, and at what price.