On average, 300,000 cars every day drive through the Deck Park Tunnel in Phoenix. The tunnel has leaked water onto cars for well over a decade. Recently, however, the drip started gushing in one area, prompting concerns from some. Deck Park Tunnel, according to ADOT, is also known as Papago Freeway Tunnel. Officials say the ‘tunnel’ is actually more like an underpass, as it is created by a series of 19 side-by-side bridges, on top of which rests Margaret T. Hance Park in Downtown Phoenix.
'When it began taking traffic in 1990, the tunnel was touted as the final segment that connected Interstate 10 from coast to coast,' read an article on the tunnel that was published by ADOT officials in 2020. On the eastbound lanes, a steady drip has been there for years, but a drip on the westbound lanes turned into much more recently. 'We didn’t know where all this water was coming from,' said Dawn Marino. 'They actually had signs coming into the tunnel saying ‘beware of the water’ and we’re thinking ‘water? Haha.’' 'I don’t know what kind of liquid is coming out of that