Editing Lincoln Tunnel (section)

==== Nearing completion ====
By April 1937, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel was 75% completed, and its opening was projected for the next year.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/01/archives/new-hudson-tube-found-75-ready-tuttle-and-inspection-party-reveal.html |title=New Hudson Tube Found 75% Ready |date=April 1, 1937 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 26, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084209/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/01/archives/new-hudson-tube-found-75-ready-tuttle-and-inspection-party-reveal.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As the tunnel could be confused with the Queens–Midtown Tunnel on the other side of Manhattan, the Port Authority decided to rename the project that month.<ref name="Gillespie 2011" />{{Rp|75}}<ref name="The New York Times 1937">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/17/archives/39th-st-tube-gets-name-of-lincoln-redesignation-by-port-body-is-due.html |title=39th St. Tube Gets Name of Lincoln |date=April 17, 1937 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 24, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324231109/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/17/archives/39th-st-tube-gets-name-of-lincoln-redesignation-by-port-body-is-due.html |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Gillespie, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel was renamed after U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] because the Port Authority believed that the tunnel was "parallel to the importance of the George Washington Bridge", which had been named after [[George Washington|the first U.S. President]].<ref name="Gillespie 2011" />{{Rp|75}}<ref name="Exhibit">{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2012/01/hoboken_museum_exhibit_explore.html |title=Hoboken Museum exhibit explores history of Holland, Lincoln tunnels |last=Hortillosa |first=Summer Dawn |date=January 24, 2012 |publisher=NJ.com |access-date=October 4, 2012 |archive-date=October 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020072649/http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2012/01/hoboken_museum_exhibit_explore.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Several other names had been considered and rejected.<ref name="The New York Times 1937" /> At the same time, the two under-construction approaches on the New York side were named after Port Authority chairmen who had been important figures in the Lincoln Tunnel's construction. Galvin Avenue, which would connect the tunnel north to 42nd Street, was named after John F. Galvin. [[Dyer Avenue]], which would lead south to 34th Street, was named for General George R. Dyer, who had died by that point.<ref name="The New York Times 1937" /> A contract for the Weehawken approach, the first part of a future "express highway"  to the tunnel (now [[New Jersey Route 495]]), was awarded in July 1937.<ref name="The New York Times 1937 3" />

By October of the same year, the Lincoln Tunnel's first tube was very close to completion, and an inspection ceremony was held for New York and New Jersey politicians. The tube's opening was pushed forward several weeks from spring 1938 to late 1937.<ref name="Gillespie 2011" />{{Rp|75}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/16/archives/lincoln-tube-open-for-traffic-dec-22-new-vehicular-tunnel-to-new.html |title=Lincoln Tube Open for Traffic Dec. 22 |date=October 16, 1937 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 27, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328051441/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/16/archives/lincoln-tube-open-for-traffic-dec-22-new-vehicular-tunnel-to-new.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was estimated that the construction of the Lincoln Tunnel had directly employed 2,800 workers at its peak, working a combined 6.3 million hours, and that workers across 40 states had worked for a combined 15 million hours to produce materials for the construction effort.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/12/06/archives/lincoln-tube-funds-benefit-40-states-pwa-says-14950000-manhours-of.html |title=Lincoln Tube Funds Benefit 40 States |date=December 6, 1937 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 27, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328051425/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/12/06/archives/lincoln-tube-funds-benefit-40-states-pwa-says-14950000-manhours-of.html |url-status=live }}</ref>