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:

    “Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For now the moon with friendless light carouses
    On hill and housetop, street and marketplace,
    Men will plunge, mile after mile of men,
    To crush this lucent madness of the face....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)