The Queensway Tunnel

We can do tunnels? Oh, I’m so all over that like crabs.
The Queensway Tunnel is the most identifiable of the three running beneath the Mersey. It ploughs into the ground opposite St George’s Hall in an area that was once a row of shops. Photographs of these stores can be seen in Liverpool history books, often plastered with ‘Closing Down’ posters and other frantic signage fearing the coming of the Great Dark One.
Now they are gone and a vacuum remains. Opened in 1934 by King George V, Queensway was the world’s longest sub-​aqueous tunnel for twenty-​four years. Nowadays, it costs £1.40 to pass through to the Wirral peninsula, something that seems reasonable when you remember how the Runcorn Bridge became little more than a traffic jam suspended over water a while back. Just don’t open your windows when you drive through. Exhaust fumes will suffocate you in seconds, if parents are to be believed.

The Queensway Tunnel runs beneath the Mersey River, connecting the city of Liverpool to the Wirral peninsula. It’s one of two major road tunnels which pretty much providesthe only crossing for vehicles since there is no bridge.
It’s a major venue for commuters who live on one side of the river but work on the other. There are tolls for going through the tunnels which offer no end of annoyance to drivers, especially considering that, apparently, these tolls were supposed to stop once the tunnels were paid for.
This is the older of the two tunnels and was opened in 1934 by King George V and Queen Mary. In July 2009, the tunnel was opened for walk-​throughs in celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the opening of the tunnel.