For the past year, every couple of months when I drive somebody to the airport, I spend a greater portion of the driving time underground. I had my longest stretch driving through the big dig today on my way home from the airport. I tend to get creeped out if I’m driving and I can’t see the sky for several minutes. It feels odd driving down an artificially lighted tunnel during the day. And while I was driving home not seeing the sky I started wondering if this is what our future transportation system would look like if the earth was destroyed by global warming and nuclear fallout, leaving hordes of inarticulate zombie mutant gangs to roam the earth’s surface while the few remaining survivors of the human race have to burrow underground in order to create habitable living conditions.
I’ve probably seen too many sci-fi disaster movies.
1:28 pm on March 21st, 2004 1
Encore has been showing the movie Daylight several times this month. I don’t know what I’d fear most, being caved in, or being stuck with Sylvester Stallone.
12:14 pm on March 22nd, 2004 2
The Big Dig frightens me, too. I got so spooked the first time I drove it (93N coming up from the South Shore). It was dark and raining outside, but in the tunnel it was bright, dry and absolutely quiet. The curves of the road add to the surrealist atmosphere.
I don’t think humanity could live underground in Boston’s tunnels. They’re really close to the ocean floor, and they’d probablly flood, drowning all those who survided nuclear blasts and zombies.