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Streetwise - Deep Underground


Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
If ever there was a Streetwise column that could make readers sit up and say, “Really?” then this is the one.
San Francisco, built on a series of hills, has been laced with tunnels for many, many decades. Some are heavily used, some less frequently, some have completely vanished from the scene and some never made it off the drawing boards.
For our purposes, it is necessary to exclude most sewage tunnels yes, they exist and they are certainly the most common form of tunnel beneath our streets but here, we will focus on those that were designed for legal public access by railroads, vehicles, and/or pedestrians. ....

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Is this the Bay Area's most overlooked monument?


Is this the Bay Area s most overlooked monument?
The Pulgas Water Temple marks a stupendous engineering feat: Bringing Sierra water to the Bay
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Cypress trees line the reflecting pool of the Pulgas Water Temple off Canada Road near Woodside, Calif. The temple celebrates the arrival of Hetch Hetchy water to San Francisco in 1934, a project that took 20 years to complete.Blair Heagerty / SFGateShow MoreShow Less
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The classically inspired Pulgas Water Temple pays homage to one of the great engineering feats in California history: bringing Hetch Hetchy water to San Francisco.Mike Moffitt/SFGATEShow MoreShow Less
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