- Bookcover of Squirrel Hill Tunnel
- Booktitle:
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Squirrel Hill Tunnel
Tunnels in Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 30
String Publishing (2013-01-10 )
eligible for voucher
- ISBN-13:
978-613-9-12814-3
- ISBN-10:
- 6139128145
- EAN:
- 9786139128143
- Book language:
- Blurb/Shorttext:
- Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Squirrel Hill Tunnel is a tunnel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It serves as an eastern gateway to the city for I-376 and was completed in 1953 after 8 years of construction and at a cost of US$18 million 1953 dollars. At the time of opening it was the single largest investment by the State of Pennsylvania Transportation Department (PennDOT). It is 4,225 feet (1,288 m) long and is a twin-bore tunnel with 8 cross passages. In Pittsburgh driving lore, the tunnels are notorious, most notably for several accidents when tractor-trailers that are too tall to safely travel through the tunnel get stuck against the roof of the tunnel. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is planning to raise the ceiling of the Squirrel Hill Tunnels in Pittsburgh in hopes of easing the bottlenecks the tunnels create into and out of the city.
- Publishing house:
- String Publishing
- Website:
- http://www.betascript-publishing.com
- Edited by:
- Jules Reene
- Number of pages:
- 172
- Published at:
- 2013-01-10
- Stock:
- Available
- Category:
- General, encyclopedias
- Price:
- 39.00 €
- Keywords:
- transportation, tunnel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hill, U.S. Route
