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The Caldecott Tunnel is a four-bore highway tunnel through the Berkeley Hills between Oakland and Orinda, California. Its four bores carry California State Route 24. Named after Thomas E. Caldecott, former mayor of Berkeley, it opened in 1937 as a two-bore tunnel. The third bore opened in 1964 and the fourth bore in 2013.
When opened in 1937, [14] it was the longest tunnel in the State of California, and accomplished the opening up of the entire region east of the hills as a major suburb of the Bay Area. At an event that year, Caldecott was honored "as the man responsible for the success of the project". [ 4 ]
This category is for tunnels which were ... 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Pages in category "Tunnels completed in 1937" ... reflect recent changes. C. Caldecott ...
State Route 24 (SR 24) is a heavily traveled east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California that serves the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay Area.A freeway throughout its entire length, it runs from the Interstate 580/Interstate 980 interchange (just east of the MacArthur Maze) in Oakland, and through the Caldecott Tunnel under the Berkeley Hills, to the Interstate 680 junction ...
Pages in category "1937 establishments in California" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. ... Caldecott Tunnel; Carmel Fire Station;
Posey Tube (traffic tunnel) built. [6] 1931 – Paramount Theatre built. 1933 – Oakland Symphony active. 1936 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens. Alameda County Courthouse built. [6] Alameda County Botanical and Zoological Society established. [11] 1937 – Caldecott Tunnel opens. 1940 – Population: 302,163. 1944 – Oakland Army Base ...
On Feb. 22, 1937, tunnel expert John Meigs, chief engineer for the Wilmington-Deepwater Tunnel Company, addressed the Milford Rotary Club touting the virtues of a tunnel under the Delaware River ...
George Pollock (1886-1950) had started the Pollock Construction Company which built Tower Bridge over the Sacramento River that opened on December 15, 1935. [1] Pollock Construction Company also help built the Shasta Dam started in 1938, 5 miles of the All American Canal, Caldecott Tunnel opened in 1937 and the Boulder Dam [2] [3] Pollock Construction Company also built part of the Mare Island ...