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Caltrans Mystery Tour Of Caldecott Tunnel

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Berkeley ITS Headlines
26 June 2004 - 5:00am

The California Department of Transportation offers tours of a working transit tunnel filled with history and surprises.

"s, the Caldecott is cool, thanks to all its secret passageways, shadowy enough to make Nancy Drew drool. And its giant fans with 8-foot-wide blades. And its cavernous barely lit mineshaft-like wind tunnels, running above the full 3/4-mile lengths of the three bores -- complete with stalactites squeezing out of the mountain and a couple of mini four-wheelers so workers can zip back and forth above commuter heads."

Full Story: Caltrans offers magical mystery tour
Source: The Oakland Tribune, June 21, 2004
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