# I've Always Hated Driving Through Tunnels

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 14, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630 "2007-10-14T00:02:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630/21 "2007-10-15T00:46:24Z")

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AAAAGHH! Fires in tunnels! Bridges collapsing! Plain old roads sinking into underground shopping malls!

I can’t take it anymore! Someone build a road that’s not going to self-destruct!

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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630/22 "2007-10-15T01:00:51Z")

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Don’t worry, Barbarian. They’ll hold up under the weight of your bike. 😃

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630/23 "2007-10-15T04:11:20Z")

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[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]  
I haven’t been through the Chesapeake Bay tunnel, only on the bridge. However, the Ft. McHenry Tunnel and the Harbor Tunnel are 1.7 miles long. I use both of them frequently. I didn’t like them at first, but I got used to them.

There’s a tunnel up in Pennsylvania that I’ve been through a couple of times that I don’t like. I don’t know which it is, as a Google search turns up 60 tunnels. I can tell you I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be stuck under a mountain if there was a collapse, but in the underwater tunnels at least you’d die quickly.  
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That Google search includes rail only tunnels. 😉 Your choices are mostly limited to the PA turnpike system with a number of tunnels west of Harrisburg, two on the northeast extension, and a bunch of local tunnels around Pittsburgh. Philly has no real tunnels-just glorified underpasses.

The only thing displeasing about PA tunnels is their interplay with weather. Roll into a turnpike tunnel at 0200 doing 55, and emerge on the other side into dense fog.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630/24 "2007-10-15T04:17:09Z")

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Now, from [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fLW3OiH8OQ) the Russian Tunnel of Death!

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-always-hated-driving-through-tunnels/422630/25 "2007-10-15T04:35:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]  
Now, from [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fLW3OiH8OQ) the Russian Tunnel of Death!  
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:eek:  
Puts “Driving the Big Dig” on the “NEVER DO” list.

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