I've Always Hated Driving Through Tunnels

[Barbarian]

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!

[GingerOfTheNorth]

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

[danceswithcats]

@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.

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.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

Now, from YouTube the Russian Tunnel of Death!

[OtakuLoki]

@Paul in Saudi

Now, from YouTube the Russian Tunnel of Death!

:eek:
Puts “Driving the Big Dig” on the “NEVER DO” list.