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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 Caldecott Tunnel fire killed seven people in the third (then-northernmost) bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, on State Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in the U.S. state of California, just after midnight on 7 April 1982. It is one of the few major tunnel fires involving a cargo normally considered to be highly flammable, namely gasoline.
The official name of this incident by Cal Fire is the Tunnel Fire. [3] It is also commonly referred to as the Oakland Hills firestorm or the East Bay Hills fire. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (620 ha) destroyed included 2,843 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units.
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 ...
Caldecott Tunnel, quad tunnels, SR 24 beneath Grizzly Peak between Orinda and Oakland; Northbrae Tunnel, former East Bay Electric Lines rail tunnel, current road tunnel joining Solano Avenue and Sutter Street beneath Marin Circle, Berkeley; Posey and Webster Street Tubes, twin immersed tubes, SR 61 beneath the Oakland Estuary between Alameda ...
Thomas Edwin Caldecott (July 27, 1878 – July 23, 1951) was a pharmacist [1] and politician. From 1923, Caldecott served in politics in Alameda County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1951. The Caldecott Tunnel which is a key highway link through the Berkeley Hills is named after him. [2] [3] [4]
The Caldecott Tunnel passes through California State Route 24 and connects Alameda County and Contra Costa County, California. [3] The project had an estimated cost of $391 million [2] He had presented his tunnel technology programme at Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (Nepal) and was very keen to work on Kathmandu Terai Fast ...
The 3.2-mile (5.1 km)-long Berkeley Hills Tunnel was constructed through active faults between Berkeley and Orinda in order to avoid further use of the Caldecott Tunnel. BART constructed right-of-ways utilizing several rail and freeway corridors.