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The Baytown Tunnel or Baytown – La Porte Tunnel was a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Baytown and La Porte, two suburbs of Houston, Texas.Completed in 1953, [1] it traveled northeast-southwest underneath the Houston Ship Channel and had a length of 4,110 feet (1,250 m). [2]
Baytown Tunnel, abandoned road tunnel, between Baytown and La Porte, demolished by 1998; Washburn Tunnel, under Houston Ship Channel/Buffalo Bayou, between Galena Park and Pasadena, east of Houston; Houston tunnel system, pedestrian tunnels, downtown Houston
The Washburn Tunnel is a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Galena Park and Pasadena, two suburbs of Houston, Texas. Completed in 1950, it travels north-south underneath the Houston Ship Channel. It was named after Harris County, Texas Auditor Harry L. Washburn. It is the largest and first toll-free vehicular tunnel in the ...
The route then interchanges SH 225 before crossing at the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel; from 1953 to 1995, SH 146 crossed under the Houston Ship Channel via the Baytown Tunnel. In Baytown, the highway forms one of its business routes and then interchanges SH 330 before looping east.
Others, however, choose to expand in different, more uncommon ways, like this woman who's DIYing a secret tunnel system underneath her home. And no, it is not an elaborate Halloween decoration in ...
US federal agents have uncovered a sophisticated “narco tunnel” equipped with electricity and a working ventilation system that smugglers had been using between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico.
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The tunnel, concealed with wooden panels and hidden access through a sewer, measured approximately 300 meters on the Mexican side, with dimensions of 1.80 meters in height and 1.20 meters in width.