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Are Manhattanites the only people who refer to outsiders who come to their portion of the city as "the bridge and tunnel crowd?"
No, but it is where the term originated and I really don't know any other city where it's nearly as widely referred to. Even though it is cliche as hell since it's been around for so long now lol.
The Bay Area does have a lot of large bridges due to all the water channels here.
The Seattle area, despite all the water, has a lot of populated areas to the west of Puget Sound that aren't connected to the rest of the metro by bridge, due to the expenses that would be incurred in building them across the deep channel.
New Orleans with the Crescent City Connection, Twin Spans, 2 of the longest bridges in the world in the Spillway Bridge and Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, also the Harvey Tunnel on the Westbank.
Cleveland has several cool bridges crossing the Cuyahoga downtown, but no tunnels, anywhere.
You're right, in the City, there are really no true tunnels. Perhaps the closest thing to a passenger tunnel is the eastern portal of the Rapid Transit into Tower City... but of course, it's really only a short tunnel barely .1 miles, under a brief section of Ontario Street at Huron Road, but heading north, the trains actually go underneath Prospect and the office building complex which is built on a complex series of bridges over the lower-level tracks which of course, at one time, included intercity railroads.
Another semi-tunnel for passengers is Canal Road which dips under the Rapid, RR Tower City complex completely before coming out near the old Baltimore and Ohio 1890s RR terminal... Canal, in its tunnel, is pretty isolated with no traffic and potholes everywhere... it's kinda spooky, esp at night.
Then, out at Hopkins International Airport, the Red Line Rapid enters a subway tunnel under Ohio 237 and the airport parking lot.
Under Lake Erie, there are deep non-passenger tunnels where salt is mined daily.
The San Francisco Bay Area is definitely a Bridge and Tunnel metro up there with NYC. It has the BART Tunnel that runs several miles under the bay between Oakland and Downtown San Francisco, the commuter Caldecott Tunnel that runs between Oakland and Inland East Bay cities and the commuter Webster St/Posey
Tubes that run between Oakland and Alameda and of course at least 6 major bridges that cross the San Francisco and San Pablo Bays of which one is the Golden Gate Bridge which is among the most famous bridges in the world.
Hampton Roads which not only features bridges and tunnels, it has the only bridge that features two tunnels.
If you're referring to the bay bridge tunnel, that isn't a way into Hamton Roads unless someones shooting down the coast. Pretty much a way to connect Delmarva and rt 13 to VA Beach and on for the trip N/S to 95.
Hampton Roads probably has as many tunnels as anywhere is the US, and probably the longest series of bridges in the US too. The MMBT, HRBT, James River Bridge, and CBBT are all over 3 miles long and all lie within 1 metro Hampton Roads. You also have tunnels on the HRBT,MMBT,CBBT, Downtown Tunnel, and Midtown Tunnel that over 12 separate tubes with 4 being on the CBBT which is like over 12 miles long. There are also 4 separate bridge tunnel complexes in Hampton Roads CBBT, MMBT,HRBT, and Berkeley Bridge Downtown Tunnel complex. There are also multiple smaller bridges over .5 Miles and considering how flat Eastern VA is you have 3 bridges over 100ft which is pretty high considering you starting from sea level.
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