Talk:Memorial Tunnel

Map needed

It is requested that a map or maps, showing Memorial Tunnel location, including current bypass route, be included in this article to improve its quality.
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A fact from Memorial Tunnel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 February 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,648 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Memorial Tunnel along the West Virginia Turnpike was the first tunnel in the U.S. to have closed-circuit television monitoring?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/February.

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Incorrect volume excavated

The stats about the amount of earth excavated for the tunnel (30 million cubic yards) versus the bypass (10 million cubic yards) cannot be correct. A massive amount of the mountain was completely removed to make the bypass - enough to completely fill in the deep culvert on the south side of the tunnel, allowing the bridge to be removed. An order of magnitude more earth had to be removed to make the bypass, yet the article states that 3 times as much earth was removed just to make the small hole through the mountain for the tunnel. This cannot be correct. --Dan East (talk) 04:19, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bingo, found a source. WV DOT says only 96,000 cubic yards were excavated in making the tunnel, and that was "dwarfed" by the amount excavated to make the bypass. [1] --Dan East (talk) 04:19, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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