Yerba Buena Tunnel
Worlds Awesomest Tunnels
Yerba Buena Tunnel
Bay Area, California I must have driven through this tunnel between Oakland and San Francisco hundreds of times and never noticed how freakin huge this thing is. At 525 feet long, it s still the largest single bore tunnel in the world and was finished all the way back in 1936 when I m pretty sure they had to dig it out with pick axes and willpower. Fun fact: apparently it was cheaper to dig through the island than to just build a giant bridge connecting either side of the bay.










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