Market Street Tunnel

Market Street Tunnel refers to the following tunnels:

  • Market Street Tunnel (San Francisco), carrying rapid transit and light rail
  • Market Street Tunnel (downtown Philadelphia), carrying rapid transit and streetcars
  • Market Street Tunnel (West Philadelphia), carrying commuter rail trains under 32nd Street, and including an abandoned branch
  • The Center City Commuter Connection runs east-west a block north of Market Street in Philadelphia.

Famous quotes containing the words market, street and/or tunnel:

    “Ae market night,
    Tam had got planted unco right,
    Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely,
    Wi’ reaming swats that drank divinely;”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)