Written By: Andrew Eide
The Caldecott
Tunnel connects Oakland to the Orinda, Moraga, Lafayette, Walnut Creek areas.
We usually got to the Caldecott Tunnel by driving up Highway 13 and when we
arrived at Highway 24 we took it East toward Orinda, Moraga, Lafayette, and
Walnut Creek areas.
Back when I
was a little boy there was only one tunnel. By the time I was a teen there were
two tunnels. Today there are three. The incident I’m going to tell you about
today happened when I was maybe 16 or 17 years of age and it concerns the
original tunnel on the Orinda side of the Caldecott Tunnel.
As you exit
the original Caldecott Tunnel on the Orinda side there is a covering over the
exit. It is not a solid structure it is a system of open steel beams. If you
climb out onto those steel beams you can look down and about 30 feet below you
is the traffic exiting the Caldecott Tunnel on Highway 24.
On this
evening my friend Steve drove us through the Caldecott Tunnel and he took the
first exit. He parked and asked me to take a walk with him. The next thing I
know we are walking on the steel beams above the traffic on Highway 24. We sat
on the beams for a few minutes before I realized if I were to fall I would fall
onto Highway 24 and probably get killed by the cars hitting me.
I quickly got
off the steel beams and I’ve never attempted a stupid stunt like that again.
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