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| - Is there anything more inspiring, more dramatic than seeing our metropolitan skyline as you arrive into Pittsburgh via the Fort Pitt Tunnel, the Liberty Tunnel's younger and more beautiful sister? She looks radiant for 50, her Southern and Northern marblestone faces glowing in the sunshine, smoldering after dark.
To take a ride through the Fort Pitt Tunnel going inbound towards Downtown Pittsburgh is to know joy. The tiles on the walls glisten, the lights above you race until they become a single stream of energy, and before you know it, you have officially arrived...in more ways than one.
As strange as this might sound, I've always found traveling through this tunnel, also carved into Mt. Washington, to be somewhat thrilling, like I'm being hurled into a portal that leads into the future. After three decades of living in Pittsburgh, The Fort Pitt Tunnel still impresses me, fascinates me, and rejuvenates my appreciation for my hometown.
My only wish is that motorists would stop slowing down as they approach it. There's no traffic light to hold people up, yet they crawl into the tunnel as if they're riding on the backs of frightened mules.
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