I Know Why the Caged Frono Drives.

[adorshki]

You're agoraphobic.

Hey! Some of my best friends are gorophobics!

She's actually an Obsessive Compulsive Interior Designer (OCID) As evidenced by post #38.

 

[Rich Cohen]

When you actually driving it, the most awesome part of the experience is driving on the bridge, not the tunnel. The experience down under is just the same as any tunnel under water which we have many of here on the East Coast. Although it kinda interesting to think about being under all that water while in the tunnel. I get the some feeling when in the Holland or Lincoln tunnels between New Joisey and NYC.

 

[mavuser]

I believe I wound up in that tunnel once, possibly by accident, or on a trip to Virginia Beach. Either way, from what I recall, my biggest problem was the cost of the toll. but it was at least 20 years ago, so I'm sketchy on the details

 

[Uke]

Evidently none of you folks have tried scuba diving in caves on the bottom of the St. John's River in Florida: neither have I!

 

[Brad Little]

I never had a problem with heights and such when younger, I remember sitting on a cliff edge playing my flute when I was in my 20s, but as I got older things change, Of course, there may be extenuating circumstances. I do remember driving across the Tappan Zee Bridge when there was so much wind it felt like it would lift the car up and toss her like the house in Wizard of Oz!.

 

[Rich Cohen]

My favorite nighmares as a child were always falling from great heights into a tidal wave.

Now that you mention it, I grew up in New Joisey and every time we crossed the George Washington Bridge I became terrified, though I didn't mention it to my parents. The Holland and Lincoln tunnels gave me the creeps too.

 

[GGJaguar]

Now that you mention it, I grew up in New Joisey and every time we crossed the George Washington Bridge I became terrified, though I didn't mention it to my parents. The Holland and Lincoln tunnels gave me the creeps too.

The Verrazzano is scarier than the GW. There's always the Staten Island Ferry as an alternative.

 

[Rich Cohen]

The Verrazzano is scarier than the GW. There's always the Staten Island Ferry as an alternative.

The Verrazzano was buit long after I reached maturity and the age of reason, or so I thought.

 

[DrumBob]

Not going in there. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Oh heavens, it's not that bad. I've driven it, but then, I'm used to the Lincoln Tunnel getting into Manhattan from Jersey.

You're not going to drown in there.

 

[fronobulax]

Tractor-trailer has gone overboard off Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, officials say

All northbound lanes on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel were closed Thursday afternoon after a tractor-trailer went overboard near the bridge’s 1 mile marker.

starexponent.com

It's the bridge that bothers me, not the tunnel. Hope the truck driver is all right since it was a developing story when posted.

Clearing cookies should get you by the paywall. If not see the attachment.

 

[Rocky]

Hope the truck driver is all right

I'm pretty sure we all feel that way.

 

[Bill Ashton]

We did the bridge tunnel many years ago, my trouble was when we got to the north side, the "desolation" of the small villages until you hit real civilization. Not even, it seemed, a place to stop for coffee!

On Monday we did the Pennsy Turnpike from its western border to somewhere south of Harrisburg. Damn! Seems we were going downhill all the time, three tunnels through the mountains, not to speak of the up/downs before. Thats some hilly country, Colorado notwithstanding, didn't know there was an "Eastern Divide," but I do now! One side of two tunnels was out of service, so we had to "share" the east bound tube with all the trucks and others coming west.

 

[Bill Ashton]

The last time I went through the Sumner Tunnel in Boston, years ago now, there was water dripping down the walls. Now THAT made me nervous...

walrus

Resting with a nice dark Porter in the hotel room after about 2/3 of our ride, I looked up the PA tunnels on Wiki. Seems there was one tunnel though each mountain/ridge until the '60's, then they bored a second for some, but did a bypass for others. Cut a vee though a whole mountain? WTF?

Anyway, the Ted Williams (third tunnel) under Boston harbor is supposedly the deepest done at 90 feet, according to Wiki. Remember when a ceiling panel on this new tunnel dropped on a poor gil's car and crushed it? The Sumner is closed for work soon, and I will have to use the Ted Williams to get to my daughter at Logan...not sure the "truck route" though Malden is much better

 

[fronobulax]

Resting with a nice dark Porter

<veer>Which one?

 

[Bill Ashton]

Actually, the cans have gone in the trash, small brewer in Indianapolis, Center Point Brewing Company

BROAD RIPPLE | Centerpoint Brewing

www.centerpointbrewing.com

We were in the enclave of Broad Ripple...