"Control Room Commander"
Armond Miles
Thank you for touching our lives Armond.
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| The Cumberland Gap Tunnel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Cumberland Gap Tunnel is located in the Cumberland Gap National Park on US 25-E. It travels under the mountain connecting Tennessee and Kentucky. The tunnel is actually two tunnels that strech over 4,600 ft. each. The tunnel is manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week by a team of at least 5 workers and 1 shift supervisor. They rotate shifts with 4 other crews. The tunnel is also staffed by an administration department, maintenence, and electrical crews. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traffic is monitered at all times with the use of computers, cameras and sensors. The three large monitors that you see are showing the north end, the south end, and the far right one is showing the inside of one of the tunnels. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| All team members are certified EMT's and are trained in firefighting and auto extrication. Each end of the tunnel has it's own fire truck and ambulance. There is also a wrecker on each end. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Because the tunnel is located in a national park, all trucks carrying hazerdous material are escorted through the tunnel without traffic. This reduces the chance of an impact on the eviroment caused by an accident in the tighter confines of the tunnel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Light traffic on Saturdays allow us to do a little maintenence and cleaning on the tunnel vehicles. (On UT game days in Knoxville and race weekends in Bristol, there is no such thing as light traffic in the tunnel. Traffic during those times can reach close to 70,000 vehicles a day.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In addition to keeping things running smooth, the maintence team somehow still finds time to keep things looking good. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The south end of the tunnel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| All of us here at the tunnel will always remember our "Control Room Commander" Armond Miles Thank you for touching our lives Armond. |
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