They loved the interiors of both buildings, but not the block, congested with traffic exiting the 59th Street Bridge.
"We called it 'Ice Station Zebra.' " Since he started as tunnel manager on Jan . 24 Mr. Durando has worked in the administration building, atop a garage just south of where traffic exits the tunnel into Jersey City.
Other factors in the tunnel layout, Ms. Mulvaney said, included the logistics of traffic exiting and entering the tunnel from Midtown; the location of the tunnel plazas as influenced by the cost of real estate at the time; and the planned Mid-Manhattan Expressway, which was never built.
This exit uses a cloverleaf interchange with one directional ramp and collector/distributor roads to avoid issues with traffic exiting immediately north of the turnpike.
Just 0.3 mile from its eastern end, it intersects Delaware Avenue, a north south street which diverts retail traffic exiting from I-35 just to the east.
The first is a partial interchange for Plymouth Road; northbound traffic exiting here is directed to use the service drive northbound to access Schoolcraft Road, and traffic can enter M-39 southbound.
This construction will consist of bridge replacement over US 10, as well as a new ramp connecting northbound M-47 to westbound US 10 that, unlike the old ramp, will not conflict with westbound traffic exiting onto southbound M-47.
Traffic exiting the business loop freeway is forced onto US 10 eastbound, and only westbound US 10 traffic and enter the westbound direction of BUS US 10/M-20; the other connections are possible by using the adjoining Bay City Road interchange on US 10 and the Waldo Avenue interchange on the business loop.
In conjunction with the reconstruction of I-97's interchange with I-695, in which the loop ramp from I-97 north to I-695 west was replaced with a flyover joining I-695 on the left, a loop ramp was added on I-895A in 1995 to allow access to the right side of I-695 west for traffic exiting at MD 648 (Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard).
Drive in the extreme right lane if you are traveling slower than other traffic; be alert for traffic exiting and entering the road, particularly if the right side is not curbed.
