Aug. 10, 1990 - The I-10 Deck Park Tunnel opens in Phoenix

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From Arizona's Family archives, see the excitement surrounding the opening day of the Deck Park Tunnel in central Phoenix. The last major connection of Interstate 10. The tunnel serves as a critical link for traffic going into downtown Phoenix, east and west valley cities.
00:00 -- Opening the Vault!
0:04 -- Aug 8, 1990 Tunnel Tour
1:48 -- Aug 10, 1990 Opening Day!
3:09 -- First Drive

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@rockerseven 11 ай бұрын

Growing up in Phx, I always know this tunnel for 2 things. 1. Holding your breath and making a wish. 2. Almost every day on the traffic report hearing "crash in the tunnel..."

@mattbernabe 9 ай бұрын

There's always an accident in there. Idiots don't know how to drive in it, or they get nervous.

@EveryoneIsStupidButMe 6 ай бұрын

@@mattbernabe I do see a lot of strange driving in there

@into_play3226 2 ай бұрын

There’s a crash on every freeway every day around Phoenix lol

@LegendaryOldwarrior 5 күн бұрын

Honestly the main reason now is because cars have auto lights. Cars lights end up turning on so it looks like they are breaking (which they aren't), but it causes a chain reaction and others start to break thinking the first cars are breaking. I see it every single time in there. It's pretty funny and frustrating at the same time. It never fails that going in there the traffic will slow down.

@Matty_Ice3955 11 ай бұрын

Believe it or not, I have never been on top of that tunnel and I lived in Phoenix all my life. 😂

@EveryoneIsStupidButMe 6 ай бұрын

You probably have and didn't know it

@ZackScriven 7 күн бұрын

I have. There’s a nice park on top.

@TNerdo 11 ай бұрын

I drive through that tunnel every time I go to pheonix. Interesting to know how it all work

@Farrell0208 11 ай бұрын

Wow! I remember the days of cars without DRLs but to see it in video is strange. When you see SO FEW cars on the road AND none of them have their lights on during the day, times were sure different 33 years ago!

@rockerseven 11 ай бұрын

Right? The only time I10 is that empty now is at like 1 in the morning lol.

@TeZSgM 11 ай бұрын

Believe it or not even though this road is 33 years old no one has learned how to drive on it

@sherylrojas1 11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 facts, I live here and there's multiple accidents per day in rush hour 5am and 3-5pm

@rockerseven 5 күн бұрын

The biggest cause is idiots who tailgate. I'm sure we've all see that line of 4 or 5 cars off the side because they were all following way too closely, and the first car needed to brake, and they all bumped into each other. 3 second rule! (5 in rain)

@luisraygoza7411 11 ай бұрын

It's crazy I got to work few years ago closing it down for the led upgrade

@ZackScriven 7 күн бұрын

Nice upgrade

@SkyeMpuremagic 11 ай бұрын

I was born Aug 27th 1990 in Prescott but lived in Phx from 2yrs-22yrs Kind of cool that they finished this the month I was born!!

@hleland4546 11 ай бұрын

No one cares!

@SkyeMpuremagic 11 ай бұрын

@@hleland4546 Lol someone gave it a thumbs up. Are you having a bad life or something? You know we all have pain and issues. You don't have to be a jerk. That just makes life worse. I suggest therapy. Good luck with your mental issues 👍 Hope you get better soon

@hleland4546 11 ай бұрын

@@SkyeMpuremagic I was merely trolling, please relax lol!

@original8616 11 ай бұрын

I remember when I was lil driving with my parents I would try to hold my breath ,when going in the tunnel

@dwwallace4976 2 ай бұрын

I remember the day they opened that tunnel fife simonton was there to dedicate it and there was a car show in both tunnels that day my parents took me

@IAmMrQ 11 ай бұрын

I was 11. Still remember that day.

@annamariekaye2609 11 ай бұрын

I'm dumb.deck park tunnel. For 33 yrs. I thought it was Duck Park Tunnel

@Siikesz 10 ай бұрын

now the infrastructure cant withstand the new traffic, and goes to show how much these on ramps and exits east of the tunnel fuck up traffic so much

@beauty6026 11 ай бұрын

ItS so DARK NOW

@Richard-ZA01 4 ай бұрын

I was there on opening day. I have driven through it thousands of times and only had 1 accident. And it was nothing more then a hit and run tiny fender bender.

@steveholzer4278 11 ай бұрын

AZ plenty of nice roads with nowhere to go. Azzzzzzz........

@KittyCarlile-490 11 ай бұрын

Just keep driving south or west Tucson or LA

@dondey8448 3 ай бұрын

Dude, the I-17 goes to Flagstaff and the I-10 can take you to Albuquerque with another freeway spur.

@ZackScriven 7 күн бұрын

Literally all they had to do was not drive the I-10 through downtown lol

@leevahal900 11 ай бұрын

Probably stayed open an hour before the cops to shut it down

@laz288 11 ай бұрын

Back went Phoenix was special and an amazing place. Now its a copy of LA and its suburbs, crime and over crowding.

@billveek9518 11 ай бұрын

Now only druggies live in the deck park, maintenance is non existent on the black hole, pigeons roost in every nook and cranny. The tunnel is ridiculous.

@erp2000 11 ай бұрын

That tunnel causes more accidents than i could count and the traffic cause of this stupid park deck

@deansynan7424 10 ай бұрын

Waste of money

@MissterX 4 ай бұрын

Totally, the 4,777,000 people in the Phoenix metro area should all just be riding on surface streets today, wouldn't that be great? And the wonders NOT completing that stretch of the 10 would have done for our economy! Yeah, huge waste of money that we certainly never recouped.

@dondey8448 3 ай бұрын

Nah, you're just bad at making arguments.