🚧Construction of the Windsor Detroit Tunnel

The Windsor Detroit Tunnel first opened to traffic on November 3, 1930. Construction took 26 months and cost $23,000,000. As you travel almost a mile, 75 feet below the surface of the Detroit River, you're surrounded by 574 lights, 80,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 750 tons of reinforced steel. The Tunnel provides one of the fastest links between Canada and the United States.The Tunnel is 5,160 feet long (1,573 meters) with a height clearance of 12 feet 8 inches (3.86 meters). The roadway is 22 feet wide (6.7 meters) and allows for two lanes of traffic in opposite directions. The maximum depth of the roadway beneath the river surface is 75 feet (22.8 meters).

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