Eisenhower-Tunnel
The Eisenhower Tunnel ( officially Eisenhower -Johnson Memorial Tunnel ) is a twin-tube tunnel connection through a mountain range on the Continental Divide of the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean in the U.S. state of Colorado. He is a section of U.S. Highway I-70, which represents the connection to the I -15 one of the major east-west connections from Los Angeles on the West Coast to the East Coast to Denver over. At an altitude of 3,400 meters of the Eisenhower Tunnel, which is named after the former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a long time the highest tunnel passage in the world - now surpassed by the leading of Gongkar Airport to Lhasa road tunnel (approx. 3650 m ) and the railway tunnel at Fenghuo - Shan ( 4905 m) in the Tibetan highlands.
The North Tunnel ( also Eisenhower - tube ) was from 15 March 1968, was almost exactly five years later, on March 8, opened in 1973. Through the 2,725 -meter-long tube of the traffic flows in a westerly direction from the direction of Denver. The south tunnel (also Edwin C. Johnson tube ) for traffic heading east was from August 18, 1975, was completed on 21 December 1979. He is about six feet longer than the tube 27-60 feet above him lying.
The construction of the Eisenhower tunnel, whose total cost is around 108 million U.S. dollars amounted ( around 83 million euros ), to long-distance travelers spare the nearly 15 km long way over the Loveland Pass ( U.S. Highway 6). The daily number of passing vehicles in 2000 was around 28,000. These are about 10.3 million vehicles a year. Transport of dangerous goods shall not pass through the tunnel, they must continue to use the Loveland Pass.