No, Lincoln Tunnel commuters, it wasn’t a disaster film come true, and that was not Hudson River water gushing into the Center Tube through a leak.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the tunnel, took pains to reassure the trans-Hudson public on Thursday that the Lincoln was fine, lest anyone was still worried after seeing a YouTube video posted last week capturing water falling onto the roadway from the tunnel’s pedestrian cat walk.
It was actually a broken water main that runs through the tunnel, and the leaked water was collected and flushed out by a drainage system that functioned as intended, the Port Authority said in a post from the agency’s “Portfolio” blog.
“Late on a recent Tuesday afternoon, crews at the Lincoln Tunnel were notified of a water main rupture in an area inside the Tunnel’s Center Tube,” read the blog about the July 14 incident. “Water streamed over the catwalk into the tube, captured on video by a motorist whose posted social media images went viral and generated discussion about the tunnel’s safety.”
The motorist who shot the video on his phone while stuck in tunnel traffic posted it the next day, along with an understated narration of the surprise cascading scene.
“Well, that’s concerning,” said the videographer. “I’m inside the Lincoln Tunnel, which is under water. I’m pretty sure there’s a movie about this, where everybody dies.”
DON'T WORRY, IT'S SAFE. That was the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's message to trans-Hudson commuters Thursday, after a YouTube video captured water gushing onto the tunnel roadway from the pedestrian catwalk on July 14. The source of the flooding was a broken water main that runs through the tunnel, the agency said. Journal file photo
The video and a separate YouTube post that incorporates the original footage had attracted nearly 40,000 views as of Thursday.
The videographer may have been referring to the 1996 Sylvester Stallone action thriller, “Daylight,” in which a traffic accident inside one of the tunnel’s three tubes sets off a series of explosions that collapse its New York and New Jersey entrances, incinerates countless toll payers, and springs leaks that gradually fill the Hudson River crossing.
The blog quotes the Port Authority’s assistant director of operations for tunnels, bridges & terminals, Hanson Lee, dismissing the likelihood of a real-life leak in the Lincoln, whose tubes were built and opened separately in 1937, 1945 and 1957.
“The Lincoln Tunnel is one of the world’s greatest feats of engineering,” Lee said of the crossing. “Its skeletal structure is made up of hundreds of massive 21-ton iron rings that were bolted together. In addition, the interior of the rings is encased in concrete, thereby sealing out the Hudson River.”
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