Now that Josh is back in Oregon, I have been driving myself to work. I didn't want to buy a parking pass for just a few months, so I park a few blocks away and walk. There are only a couple major streets in The Forks, but I have to cross one of them to get to my building.
Thankfully, the people of Grand Forks, ND have thought up a plan to make it easier for me: an underground tunnel.
the entrance, and on the other side of the street there is the exit
I'm not sure whether I'm being sarcastic or not when I say that this is a good idea. Because it gets so cold in The Forks during the winter, there are actually multiple tunnels all around campus to make getting from building to building without needing to put on snow boots and mittens.
inside the tunnel
I think the idea of the tunnel system goes along with another thing I didn't know about Grand Forks, which is that there is a very small homeless population. If there were tunnels in Portland, I don't think anyone would use them because they would be filled with homeless people (much like parking structure stairways downtown).
I like using the tunnel every day because I don't have to wait for the walk signal. It smells like pee, of course, but I think that's because of drunk college students. Most things can be attributed to drunk college students around here.
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