tunnel vision

Every couple of months, maybe twice a year, when I have decided (as usual) not to spend ten bucks on a cab but instead hike from the Castro to Noe and Duboce for the N to take me home, I find that some moron has driven his (or her) car into the Sunset Tunnel and lodged the vehicle onto the tracks.

Then I walk back to the Castro for that cab.

Sometimes I am surprised at how often this happens, but other times I can see how drunks/ tourists/ drunken tourists could make this mistake. However, whenever I have witnessed this the divers have since bolted, and the car is always some crappy old Chevy-something (and not likely a tourist's ride).

This is the first time I have seen a car stuck in the tunnel from my side (Cole Valley). And it is a Prius no less. However, judging by the way the car was facing when it was towed out of the tunnel by the train, it had to have entered from the Duboce Triangle side (aka the East Portal).

And the fine? Only $55. And parking on the sidewalk is now up to something like $150. But parking on the railroad tracks in a tunnel? $55. Weird.

All of this just seems a little Wile E. Coyote.



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