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The purpose of the George Washington Bridge was to make it easier to travel between New Jersey and New York City.
The Holland Tunnel opened in 1927, while the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931. Before the Holland Tunnel and GWB were built, there was no way to travel across the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York, except by boat.
Traveling across the Hudson River by boat was inconvenient enough, but it became doubly inconvenient when automobiles became popular. Before the 1920s, nobody had cars except the rich. But as the 1920s progressed, the price of an automobile went down, and average people were able to buy cars, too.
But you couldn't take your car across the river by boat. So, it became necessary to build the Holland Tunnel and the GWB (and the Lincoln Tunnel, which opened several years after the GWB), so people could drive across the Hudson River.
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