re: Why Not Tunnels?

A lot of comments about how tunnels are terrible, or “I hate tunnels.” But I am trying to figure out how they are different from a traffic standpoint than a bridge. A friend of mine thinks people just slow down when driving through.

In theory, I think you can have the same number of lanes as a bridge and you have the same issue of it being a bottleneck in a sense that you can’t escape the traffic of an accident once you are on it (or in it).

Maybe the GWT gives people around here a bad taste in their mouth if they’ve run into traffic issues in it? But it seems to me that the issue there is that it’s one of the only direct ways through the bay, and as many people have said they are bidding out a bridge to help spread the traffic like we are considering doing here. I am curious why they are going bridge instead of another tunnel too, but I couldn’t find any info on that either.