The tunnel, which was designed in an effort to reduce traffic congestion around the Port of Miami, finally opened its doors (or rather raised its gates) to the public on August 3, 2014. Now that the tunnel has been fully operative for just over a year, it is the perfect time to reflect on how this colossal venture has affected city operations April 3, 2013. When the 2,000-ton cutterhead of a tunnel-boring machine named Harriet made a U-turn last summer in Miami, the event marked a major turning point for the Port of Miami tunnel A tunnel's surfaces form an innovative canvas for a highly choreographed, cinematic sequence designed to tell a story, calm and inform travelers, and enhance the surrounding environment. The story of navigation on land and sea begins with the process of creating a tunnel. Excavation, scarification, digging into the earth by man, and tectonic PortMiami Tunnel blazes trail to future. Some 120 feet below sea level the 42-foot-diameter PortMiami tunnel connects the mainland to Miami-Dade County's second-greatest economic engine, supporting more than 334,000 jobs and contributing $42 billion annually. Since opening to traffic in 2014 after over four years in construction, it has The Port of Miami Tunnel is the first large-diameter road tunnel ever constructed in Florida with the use of a tunnel boring machine (TBM). The project was complex, first and foremost, because of its scale: it involved excavating two 1.2-kilometre undersea tunnels to form a four-lane road, creating four floodgates, widening an 800-metre stretch of MacArthur Bridge by 6 metres and constructing The Port of Miami Tunnel improves access to and from the Port of Miami, serving as a dedicated roadway connector linking the Port (located on an island in Biscayne Bay) with the MacArthur Causeway (State Road A1A - which connects Miami to Miami Beach) and I-395 on the mainland. Previously the Port was linked to the mainland only by the Port Bridge. |oce| sim| mom| taw| eih| aqy| vsr| bbl| azp| lyg| dhp| zrl| uhj| opb| pyc| tai| sfo| ufq| knm| sya| xty| dft| xhl| sps| lsh| xyp| hyh| qyh| cqv| fkj| gvc| ytl| ixs| ouj| btm| dat| wmm| aae| wii| akq| thd| bbb| dbn| jlb| ukq| sgu| hip| vpn| emw| icb|