Bergen Arches
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Bergen Arches is the common name for the Erie Railroad's mile-long, four-track cut through the New Jersey Palisades in Jersey City, New Jersey. Using 250,000 pounds of dynamite, workers blasted through 800,000 cubic yards of blue trap rock; 160,000 cubic yards of earth were excavated.
It is abandoned, but the adjacent two-track tunnel is used for freight. A project is underway to consider use of the abandoned track bed for a four-lane highway that would connect the New Jersey Turnpike and U.S. Route 1/9 to the Holland Tunnel, avoiding the local street traffic in Hoboken on the approach to the tunnel.
