Our pal Kiran was just wondering:
whenever i go through the bay on BART i wish they would’ve made the tunnel transparent so we could see all the the cool underwater shit going on under there. i imagine it to be filled with tons of interesting little sea critters & the water to be all pretty & blue….but then i think about about & realistically, it probably would be the total opposite & filled with dead things & all green & murky & stuff i really don’t wanna see. so then i say ok & stare back at my ipod & continue avoiding awkward eye contact with all the people around me. [link]
It’d be trippy though, I bet.
[Photo by Bruce Mozart via Betsey J]
Either way, too cool for words.
If it’s too boring, we could decorate the underside of the bay with Little Mermaid statues.
Please don’t talk about that mermaid.
It would be covered in silt from the Sacramento River run-off within weeks of opening. Sorry to be a fun-hater.
Fucking fun hater
When the tube opened in 73 I thought it would clear. I was duped.
The reality is that the transbay tunnel is UNDERGROUND AND UNDERWATER. As in, under the water, then further under the bottom of the ocean, tunneled into the depths of the earth. Physical ground. My girl is a station agent, yet I JUST found this out 2 days ago when I stopped by to eat the rest of her lunch from Specialties. Nom nom some kind of egg sandwich. Not sure how the subject came up. Oh wait, it was tourists wanting to take the ride ‘under the ocean’. Sarah told me then.
The Transbay Tube is neither underground nor under the ocean; it’s simply a big pipe sitting at the bottom of the bay. They built the tube in sections, towed them out to the bay, sunk them, and divers welded the pieces in place.
There’s a couple cool photos of the tube sections being installed here:
http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2011/05/19/the-birth-of-bart-photos-from-the-1960s-and-70s/
That was fun.
It was partially buried in a trench. Not sure if it was completely covered over the top.
Ampersandy.
The bay is full of mud. Visibility is less than 5 feet. That’s why you never see scuba tours on the bay.
I’m gonna start that Scuba Tour up for unsuspecting vulnerable tourists. You just try and stop me!
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