Lincoln Tunnel

[BrooklynRider]

I found this bit of info from this month's New york Magazine quite interesting...
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New Main Stream

The Hudson’s main current has, for all of recorded history, clung to lower Manhattan’s edge, skimming along the West Side. Battery Park City, built in the seventies, juts out into that flow, and since then, the current has been cutting a new channel, out toward the center of the river. That current is scraping mud off the top of the Lincoln Tunnel where it never did before; the underwater traffic tubes have lost 25 percent of their soil coverage in some spots. If the tubes ever became exposed, they would be at risk for shifting, cracking, and terrorist threats. The Port Authority is studying solutions.

http://nymag.com/news/features/56609/

[Merry]

Very entertaining article, thanks BR.

Is the Lincoln Tunnel, and any similar transport routes, not already a potential target for terrorist threats, albeit "unexposed" at the moment? It almost seems like they tacked that onto the end of the sentence just for dramatic effect.


The Port Authority is studying solutions.Mmmmm, wonder how long that will take :rolleyes:.


I'm weighing up whether it would be worth it try for these:


23. 1,600 Bars of Silver, Weighing 100 Pounds Apiece
In 1903, a barge in the Arthur Kill—the oily, mucky arm of the harbor between Staten Island and New Jersey—capsized, spilling its cargo of silver ingots. It carried 7,678 bars; about 6,000 were recovered soon after. The rest are still down there. At today’s prices, they’re worth about $26 million. Every now and then, someone tries to find them. So far, no luck.I guess you wouldn't get to keep them, though :(.

[Ninjahedge]

and terrorist threats. The Port Authority is studying solutions.

Translation: Federal Funding.


I heard that schools could also be threatened by terrorists because of their poor funding!!!! :crosseyed:

[paul_houle]

http://images.ny-pictures.com/photo2/m/35182_m.jpg (http://ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/picture/35182/photo_makes_me_feel_guy_speeding_lincoln_tunnel)

Picture of Lincoln Tunnel (http://ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/topic/6180/Lincoln_Tunnel) thanks to rockinfree (http://ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/photographer/604595/rockinfree) and New York Pictures (http://ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/)

[KenNYC]

I guess you wouldn't get to keep them, though :(.

You probably would actually. At the very least, you'd be entitled to a finder's fee which is typically 10%; still not bad payment for a little swim.