[PRCo] PRCo Deadly Streets

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Thu Sep 5 10:42:12 EDT 2013


And I walked through the much shorter Armstrong Tunnel from the 10th St. Bridge.   We were both nutz as kidz.   



On Sep 5, 2013, at 8:48 AM, BobDietrich wrote:

> The south portal of the Liberty Tubes was rated so deadly because it was so
> detrimental to the health of the guys who had to work there.  Can you
> imagine breathing the exhaust of all those cars all day on top of the normal
> city pollution.
> 
> This reminds me of a stunt I pulled that I'll bet none of you were dumb
> enough to do - I rode my bike through the Tubes one day.  We'll I think I
> walked it most of the way.  It was back when they still had a sidewalk about
> three feet above the roadway so I was not in the traffic.  It still scared
> the crap out of me.  
> 
> Bob 
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> Any to add?
> 
> http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/Roads1930/DeadlyRoads.html
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> 
> Ray
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