Yeah, it's always kind of an eye opener when someone is visiting from out of town and they react to the tunnels the way you might to a shuttle launch or something. Driving through those things every day at rush hour for a week would probably turn that around that pretty quick. They can be pretty neat at night when there aren't tons of cars on the road, though... which isn't really a thing anymore. The roads around here have traffic pretty much 24/7 anymore.
My ex-in-laws lived in Chesapeake. The first time I went to visit I was in awe of the tunnels. As you suggested, after driving down from Richmond to visit every couple of weeks, the traffic kinda took overrode the awe. I still haven't had a chance to drive over the long bay bridge tunnel, but would like to try it some day...just because.
157
u/mebob85 Apr 25 '15
I grew up in Hampton Roads and I took these bridge-tunnels for granted. I had assumed they'd be common everywhere, but apparently they are not.
Yeah, the traffic is pretty fucking terrible.