Bridge & Tunnel Crowd Redux

[Dave Wilton]

This morning I heard a radio DJ here in the Bay Area (Annalisa on KFOG
104.5) use the term "bridge and tunnel crowd" to refer to suburbanites
coming into the city of San Francisco. The use of "bridge" certainly fits,
but "tunnel" is a bit out of place here--unless one is refering to the BART
tunnel running under the bay or to the Caldecott tunnel which runs
underneath the Oakland hills. (She followed up the "bridge and tunnel"
comment with a reference to people driving in from Concord & Walnut Creek.)
I've never heard it before outside of NYC references and this could be a
one-off usage.

--Dave Wilton
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