Porter Tunnel

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The Porter Tunnel

Porter Tunnel is the major road tunnel system in Liberty City, possibly based on the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel or the Big Dig, located in Boston. It appears in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, but does not appear in Grand Theft Auto Advance, since the game is viewed from a top-down perspective. The Porter Tunnel is a primarily four lane underground and underwater road tunnel (the Staunton Island exit consists of only one lane for each direction), which connects all boroughs in Liberty City: Portland Island via Harwood, Staunton Island via Rockford, and Shoreside Vale via Francis International Airport and Wichita Gardens.

In 2001 (the time setting of GTA III), the tunnel was initially inaccessible, citing that tunnel construction was still incomplete and had been delayed several times. The tunnel would then be opened in phases: first with the segment linking Portland and Staunton, then the segment linking the Portland-Staunton exits to the Shoreside Vale exits.

In 1998 (the time setting of GTA Liberty City Stories), the tunnel is under construction causing a city wide protest to save the ferries. It was also revealed that Toni Cipriani had used to tunnel entrances to get to the old subway line to plant explosives to destroy the Little Italy district of Fort Staunton.

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