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	Eisenhower Tunnel Description
		Centerline to centerline, the two tunnels are approximately 115 feet apart at the east ventilation building entrance, 120 feet apart at the west ventilation building entrance, and some 230 feet at the widest point of separation under the mountain.
		The length of the westbound (north) tunnel is 1.693 miles, and the length of the eastbound (south) tunnel is 1.697 miles (outside face to outside face of the ventilation buildings).
		The average grade of both tunnels is 1.64 percent rising toward the west (rising 1.64 feet for each 100 feet on the horizontal).
	www.dot.state.co.us /Eisenhower/description.asp (564 words)

	Eisenhower Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eisenhower Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel located on Interstate 70 approximately 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of Denver, Colorado.
		The tunnel was built under the Continental Divide, and at 11,158 feet (3,401 m), is the highest vehicular tunnel in the world.
		The eastern end of the tunnel is under and surrounded by the Loveland ski area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eisenhower_Tunnel (272 words)

	Eisenhower Memorial Bore
		The Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel in Colorado was originally going to be called the Straight Creek Tunnel, the name stemming from the valley where the west portal is located.
		In fact, the Eisenhowers were married in the gladioli-filled music room of the Douds' Denver house on July 1, 1916, and were frequent visitors to the State while he was President.
		The Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel opened on March 8, 1973, following a ceremony that was held inside the tunnel's east portal because of the 34-degree temperature and occasional snow flurries.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/bore.htm (888 words)

	Tunnel Virtual Team - Question and Answers from Ask the Expert
		Tunnels vary in the type of material that the tunnel passes through, their construction method and details, and the type of components that exist as part of the tunnel structure.
		The objectives of ventilation for road tunnels are, to dilute the carbon monoxide concentration to accepted levels for the traveling public, to effectively and efficiently manage the smoke and heat during a fire inside a tunnel.
		There are several tunnels throughout the world in which a fire suppression systems (either water, foam or both) have been installed to handle a fire incident; however, there is much debate on their effectiveness in putting out a fire as well as the protection of the individuals in the tunnel when these systems are used.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /bridge/tunnel/qa.htm (14718 words)

	Tunnels in the USA and Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The tunnel is at an altitude of 11,112 feet and was the world's highest road tunnel at the time of its construction.
		This tunnel, built in 1821 near Auburn, Pennsylvania, at 450 feet long was the first tunnel of any significance constructed in the USA.
		This structure includes a tunnel through Yerba Buena Island which is the largest bore tunnel in the world with a width of 76 feet, a height of 56 feet (or 58 feet, sources vary) and a length of 1700 feet (or 500 feet - sources vary).
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/tunnels (473 words)

	Eisenhower Tunnel - TheBestLinks.com - Automobile, Colorado, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Photograph, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Eisenhower Tunnel - TheBestLinks.com - Automobile, Colorado, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Photograph,...
		Eisenhower Tunnel, Automobile, Colorado, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Photograph...
		The eastern end of the tunnel is under and surrounded by the Arapahoe Basin ski area.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Eisenhower_Tunnel.html (275 words)

	The Man Who Changed America, Part II, May/June 2003 Public Roads
		President Eisenhower was not in a position to enjoy the outcome of his efforts as much as he had hoped.
		As biographer Stephen Ambrose stated, "One of Eisenhower's favorite programs for reducing the peaks and valleys on the GNP chart was the Interstate System." With that goal in mind, the President proposed to suspend limitations on expenditures for fiscal years 1959-1961.
		The 2.7-kilometer (1.7-mile) Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, 60 miles west of Denver, CO, under the Continental Divide, is the longest tunnel built with Interstate funds and is located at the highest point of elevation on the Interstate System.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/03may/05.htm (9449 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Colorado
		In the Colorado-Big Thompson and Fryingpan-Arkansas projects, water from the headwaters of the Colorado River, west of the divide, is transported by tunnel to the Eastern Slope.
		The development of the railroads, and transportation in general, has been hindered by the Rocky Mountains, and it was not until 1934, after the construction of the Moffat Tunnel under the Continental Divide and the completion of the Dostero Cutoff, that the state was served by a direct transcontinental railroad.
		A new route through the mountains was opened in 1973 with the completion of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, about 100 km (about 60 mi) west of Denver.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761557361___47/Colorado.html (1844 words)

	Camping World Open Roads Forum: I-70 From Grand Junction to Denver
		The Eisenhower Tunnel is just above 11,000 feet, and from there it is mostly down hill to the middle of Kansas.
		Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel is at the summit of Straight Creek Pass.
		If you are going eastbound and cannot use the tunnel because of height, width, or hazardous cargo you must use Loveland Pass on US 6.
	campingworld.com /cforum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/15617932.cfm (1174 words)

	9NEWS.com - Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Now there are two tunnels and they are fitted with dozens of cameras to monitor the steady stream of cars and trucks.
		When the tunnel first opened, engineers thought by 2000 it would average 14,000 vehicles a day, but the number is actually closer to 30,000, or more than double.
		And while you might think the tunnel is busiest in the winter, the highest traffic count came in August of 2001 when more than 50,000 cars passed through in one day.
	www.9news.com /storyfull.asp?id=11976 (223 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Eisenhower launched huge, intricate U.S. highway system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Started in 1956, the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways is also known as the U.S. Interstate System.
		Eisenhower was determined to build a superhighway in the United States bigger than any other.
		The Eisenhower Tunnel also claims the highest elevation of any vehicle tunnel in the world, and it is the longest bored tunnel on the interstate system, at 7,789 feet.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,575039771,00.html (615 words)

	CHARLES LaBELLE :: Horror of Light :: Artist Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I had never been to Colorado nor driven through the Eisenhower Tunnel but when I saw it on the map-- two red triangles indicating the tunnel’s openings-- I knew it was exactly the place I’d been looking for and that I had to go.
		During the making of “2001,” each time I drove through a tunnel I was fascinated with the image and the eerie psychological pull of it.
		Yet this idea is different from the belief that something better lies in wait somewhere down the road-- the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel”-- which is a lie.
	home.earthlink.net /~clabelle/exhibit/horroroflight_statement.html (735 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways Engineering Marvels
		In Duluth, the Leif Erikson Tunnel, opened in October 1992, has been honored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and others for its use of cut and cover tunnels, architectural design treatments, and extensive landscaping to integrate the freeway into the surrounding urban environment and create a pleasing driving experience.
		The 2.75-km-long Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel under the Continental Divide is the longest tunnel built under the interstate program.
		The 2.75-km Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, Md., is the largest underwater highway tunnel and the widest vehicular tunnel ever built by the immersed tube method.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su28.htm (2645 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		State transportation planners are focusing too much on improving the eastern part of the Interstate 70 mountain corridor, between Denver and the Eisenhower Tunnel, and not enough on the western half, in Eagle and Summit counties, say High Country officials say.
		Instead of a vision of a sleek, futuristic transportation system, the vision that has emerged in a series of workshops conducted in recent weeks by state planners and their consultants is largely an extension of what now exists.
		With three tunnels, four full-service rest areas and 40 bridges and viaducts, Glenwood Canyon cost $500,000 million, which at the time of completion was the most expensive segment of interstate highway ever built.
	www.tahoe.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/VD/20030514/NEWS/305140101 (907 words)

	Highway Feature of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The west portal of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel is the highest point on the US Interstate system.
		This is also the longest tunnel on the I-system that does not pass under water.
		These and other sensors are connected to a computer that determines the configuration of the various vehicles passing through the tunnel and then flashes a message on a reader board about 400 m from the portal that says "GEAR DOWN TO (XX) MPH" (often as slow as 15 mph (25 km/h)).
	www.gribblenation.com /hfotw/exit_8.html (535 words)

	The Durango Herald Obituaries - Durango, CO
		A memorial service was held on June 14 in Beaverton, Ore. Her family will return her ashes to the mountains of Colorado, with a memorial service on Aug. 2 in Grand Junction.
		He was the assistant project engineer on the Westside tunnel of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel on Interstate 70, the Gallup-Tucson microwave project in Tucson, Ariz., the Hunter Power Plant in Castle Dale, Utah, and the La Plata County Road Department.
		Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Mercy, 375 E. Park Ave., Durango CO 81301.
	www.durangoherald.com /asp-bin/obit_generation.asp?article_type=obit&article_path=/obituaries/obit0306.htm (4950 words)

	Beans Around The World - Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel - Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today the beans get to pass through the highest auto tunnel in the world as they make yet another successful road trip.
		By taking the Eisenhower, you'll save yourself a 9.8 mile trek over the top of Loveland Pass, which is probably a good thing to have come February...
		Located about 60 miles west of Denver, the Eisenhower sits 11,000 feet in the air, and tunnels right underneath the Continental Divide.
	www.beans-around-the-world.com /tunnel.html (224 words)

	Historic Construction Projects - Interstate Highway System
		The longest tunnel built as part of the interstate highway system is the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel under the Continental Divide.
		Geologists had discovered that the bedrock in the tunnel was 75% granite and 25% gneiss and schist.
		All told, contractors used 190,000 cubic yards of concrete to line the tunnel, 34,000 cubic yards of concrete for the buildings, and 10,000 tons of steel reinforcing bars and 23,400 tons of structural steel in the tunnel.
	www.generalcontractor.com /resources/articles/interstate-highway-system.asp (1778 words)

	The World's longest tunnel Page - Highest Tunnels
		October 19 2002 saw the successful liking up of Fenghuoshan Tunnel, the highest among frozen earth tunnels of the world, marking important progress in the construction of Qinghai - Tibet Railway.
		Due to the extreme lack of oxygen inside the drilling site, oxygen generation machines had to be installed inside the tunnel so as to provide builders with enough oxygen to keep the drilling process as scheduled.
		Situated at 11, 112 feet above sea level, it is the highest vehicular tunnel in the world.
	home.no.net /lotsberg/data/highest.html (183 words)

	Highways Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century
		Its bridges and tunnels stretch 17.6 miles shore to shore and feature a pair of mile-long tunnels that run beneath the surface to allow passage above of commercial and military ships.
		The Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore opens and at 1.75 miles is the longest and widest underwater highway tunnel ever built by the immersed-tube method.
		The tunnel was constructed in sections, then floated to the site and submerged in a trench.
	www.greatachievements.org /?id=3786 (1518 words)

	Allen Best- Papers- Headwaters 12- Archives- Headwaters Project- Western State College of Colorado
		The tunnel and Vail Pass are the highest points on Interestate highways in the nation.
		In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the law that authorized the first 40,000 miles of interstate highways, with the federal government obligated to pay 90 percent.
		In 1973, that changed, with completion of the first bore of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel and with the four-lane segment across Vail Pass in 1976.
	www.western.edu /headwaters/archives/headwaters12_papers/best_paper.html (5401 words)

	Security Concerns Silence Cells
		The Port Authority supervises the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
		Neal Belitzsky, general manager of the company that runs the tunnel connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, didn't say whether service would be cut, but noted that Homeland Security officials have issued no such advisory.
		Finally, the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel in Colorado that carries I-70 through the Continental Divide at more than 11,000 feet, also will continue to carry wireless service, Senior Supervisor Rod Henderson told me.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071200437_pf.html (1577 words)

	9news.com \| News \| Holiday traffic causes long, slow drive back from mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		No major accidents were reported on I-70, but traffic from Georgetown to the Eisenhower tunnel was moving slowly for most of the afternoon and evening due to heavy volume.
		Mangers at the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel said that during the day there was an average of 3,000 vehicles an hour headed east and that between 10 a.m.
		The tunnel cuts under the Continental Divide about 60 miles east of Denver.
	www.9news.com /acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=91bce3f2-0abe-421a-003c-ffeeace92fbc&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf (234 words)

	Colorado I-70
		A blurry picture on westbound I-70 of the twin-bore Beavertail Mountain Tunnel, northeast of the SH 65 interchange in De Beque Canyon.
		East Portal of the Eisenhower Tunnel from a parking area on the north side of the road.
		Westbound signals that are used to stop traffic in case of a tunnel emergency, and a good view of the portal itself.
	www.mesalek.com /colo/i70.html (3858 words)

	List of tunnels - Simple English Wikipedia
		The list of tunnels is a link page for any road tunnel, railway tunnel or waterway tunnel anywhere in the world.
		East River Mountain Tunnel, West Virginia to Virginia
		Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, Newport News, Virginia to Suffolk, Virginia
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_tunnels (118 words)

	Getting Around: The name of the game is blame in transit funding situation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sharp-eyed readers pointed out that the old Wabash Railroad Tunnel, reopening tomorrow as a Port Authority facility, was used by freight trains until March 1946, when a fire destroyed most of the Wabash Terminal, Downtown.
		The tunnel was halfway up Mount Washington, near the present Sycamore Street.
		The highest elevation on the nation's Interstate highway system is in an Interstate 70 tunnel -- the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel in the Colorado Rockies.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04361/432222.stm (912 words)

	Skiing Out of Bounds: Loveland Pass, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Spring had settled upon the mountains, it hadn’t snowed in two days, so, as our group mingled in the dirt parking lot, expectations were not high.
		You’ll finish up on Dry Gulch Trail, a gated road that was the staging area for tunnel construction back in the 1960s.
		A pedestrian tunnel five minutes west of the old rope tow line brings you back to the base.
	www.couloirmag.com /articles/destinations/co/loveland_ob.htm (1459 words)

	americasroof news - hiking and climbing the highest mountains and hills in the world and U.S.
		The highest elevation on an Interstate is in a tunnel—the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel that joins Summit and Clear Creek Counties.
		The Eisenhower Tunnel also claims the highest elevation of any vehicle tunnel in the world.
		It is the longest bored tunnel on the Interstate System at 7,789 feet in length (1.5 miles).
	www.network54.com /Forum/3897/thread/1089766065/Highest+point+on+I-80 (1074 words)

	Bote's Sign Pages: Miscellaneous Signs, page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Westbound I-70 near Graymont, CO Height restriction for the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, westbound I-70 somewhere near Georgetown, CO Hazardous cargo use US 6 through Loveland Pass.
		See the warning signs page for a picture of the sign leaving the other side of the tunnel.
		Hazmat informational sign, westbound I-70, CO The indicated exit takes hazardous materials carriers off of westbound I-70 onto US 6 to avoid the Eisenhower tunnel.
	pages.prodigy.net /bote/signs/misc_signs.html (247 words)

	News - Skyline Products Wins Contract for Tunnel Signage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Having been built in 1973, the 9022-foot-long tunnel does not have the clearance to allow passage to all modern overheight vehicles.
		The objective of the Eisenhower Tunnel is to signal overheight vehicles to exit from the freeway without stopping the traffic flow.
		Integration of the blank-out signs into CDOT's Eisenhower Tunnel is targeted for Summer 2002.
	www.itsa.org /itsnews.nsf/9a6e6f6253e25daa8525690a0055c597/f4dc25ea89f81f7a85256b95005e7d79?OpenDocument (486 words)

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