page_title: McClure Tunnel
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: McClure Tunnel / History
caption_attribution_description: English: McClure Tunnel between Pacific Coast Highway and the 10 freeway in Santa Monica, California, USA Category:Santa Monica
context_page_description: The McClure Tunnel is a tunnel in Santa Monica, California, that connects Pacific Coast Highway to its junction with the western terminus of the Santa Monica Freeway. The tunnel passes through the Santa Monica ocean bluffs, underneath the Colorado Avenue–Ocean Avenue intersection and close to the Santa Monica Pier and southern end of Palisades Park. The length of the McClure Tunnel is about 400 feet. The current tunnel opened in 1936, replacing an earlier rail tunnel which had been bored in 1886. It was officially named the McClure Tunnel in 1979 after Robert E. McClure, a local newspaper publisher and member of the state highway commission.
context_section_description: The tunnel was originally constructed in 1886 as a Southern Pacific Railroad tunnel intended to enable the railroad to take trains to Santa Monica's Long Wharf. This tunnel, and the ocean view to the left that suddenly appears as the passenger moves westward out of the curved tunnel, was depicted in a brief 1898 Edison Studios film called Going Through the Tunnel. It was demolished and reconstructed in Works Progress Administration Moderne style as an auto tunnel, known as the Olympic Tunnel and opened in 1936. The tunnel was built at a cost of $200,000 and connected Roosevelt Highway with Olympic and Lincoln boulevards. The freeway connected to the tunnel in 1966, and in 1979 the tunnel was officially named in honor of Robert E. McClure, editor of the Santa Monica Outlook newspaper and a longtime advocate for the freeway.
caption: McClure Tunnel exit
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