Wheeling Tunnel
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The Wheeling Tunnel is a set of twin tunnels named for and located in Wheeling, West Virginia. The tunnels are 0.27 miles (430 m) long each, cutting through Wheeling Hill, and each carries two lanes of Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 250. The tunnels originally took three years to construct, costing $6.9 million. Reconstruction of the tunnel, originally planned to take a total of 6 months, took over three years to complete between 2007 and 2010, at a cost of $13.7 million.
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Location | Wheeling, West Virginia |
Coordinates | 40.0727192°N 80.719621°W / 40.0727192; -80.719621 (Wheeling Tunnel) |
Route | I-70 / US 250 |
Operation | |
Work begun | August 22, 1963 (1963-08-22)[1] |
Opened | December 7, 1966 (1966-12-07)[2] |
Operator | WVDOH |
Vehicles per day | 59,600 (2009 AADT)[3] |
Technical | |
Length | 0.27 mi (430 m) |
No. of lanes | 2 each |
Operating speed | 45 mph (72 km/h) |
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