Have You Ever Been Through the Lincoln Tunnel?

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Here in Virginia, we have some tunnels. I’ve been through the Hampton Rhodes Tunnel several times. I’ve also been through the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel. However, I have NOT been through the Lincoln Tunnel that joins midtown Manhattan in New York City with Weehawken, NJ. I know that the tunnel goes under the Hudson River and that there are THREE tubes which opened in different years, the first in 1937. I also know that the tunnels are about a mile and a half long. What surprised me was the number of vehicles that pass through those tunnels every day. Over 100,000 vehicles. That’s amazing to me. So, I was wondering: Are there 100,000 people who live in New Jersey but work in Manhattan? Is that what all the traffic through those tunnels represent?