ALESSIA PIERDOMENICO/REUTERS Robin Williams lived in the Bay Area at the time of his death. Now a Change.org petition is aiming to rename San Francisco’s Waldo Tunnel after him. 
 
 A move to rename a famous rainbow-painted tunnel in honor of Robin Williams is gaining ground. 
 
 More than 10,200 supporters signed the Change.org online petition to rename the Waldo Tunnel just north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge as of Wednesday afternoon. 
 
 "I'm thrilled with the response," local resident Julia Wainwright, who started the petition, told the Daily News Wednesday. 
 
 "It feels like a special way to honor someone who was a part of our community, someone very amazing, silly and active," she said. "Robin Williams always wore those rainbow suspenders as Mork, and he did a famous comedy routine about going through the tunnel." 
 
 The passageway, which connects urban San Francisco to the upscale suburbs of Marin County, is one that Williams likely traveled thousands of times as he and his relatives lived on both sides over the decades. 
 
 "Do you know why it's called the Rainbow Tunnel? Because you go in any color and you come out white," he joked in his famous bit. 
 
 via Wikimedia Commons/Edward Betts Waldo Tunnel in San Francisco, Calif. may be named after the late Robin Williams. 
 
 The tunnel is currently named after William Waldo, an obscure politician from the Gold Rush era. 
 
 "The name Waldo doesn't mean anything to us, but there's something fabulous about having a rainbow tunnel named after Robin Williams," Wainwright told The News. "It really is the connector between Marin County and San Francisco, and Robin was a great connector with his comedy." 
 
 She said that if Williams' family supports the idea, she'll raise the money to pay for the renaming if officials give it the green light. 
 
 "Of course his family has to agree. If they do, money shouldn't be an issue. The fee would be about $5,000, and either I'll get it or I'll give it. I'll guarantee it will happen one way or another," she said. 
 
 "He was a local. We should honor him locally. The tunnel is sort of happy and silly, it suits him," Marabeth Grahame, a Mill Valley resident who signed the petition, said in a post on Change.org. 
 
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 The California Assembly unanimously voted Thursday to name the tunnel that connects the Golden Gate Bridge to greater Marin County after the late comedian Robin Williams. 
 
 Following a 76-0 vote, the Assembly sent the bill by Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, to the Senate for consideration. 
 
 Levine introduced the legislation after a Change.org petition garnered thousands of signatures in support of the name change. Today, the petition has 61,500 signatures. 
 
 The tunnel has never had an official name. It is known locally as the “Waldo Tunnel” because it travels the Waldo Grade, which is named after William Waldo, a Whig Party candidate who ran for governor in 1853. The tunnel is also sometimes called the “Rainbow Tunnel” due to its colorful motif. 
 
 Williams was raised in Marin and lived most of his life there, frequently passing through the tunnel on his way to comedy clubs in San Francisco. 
 
 “He knew how to make us laugh and that made people feel like they knew him,” Levine said last month. “He had a career that transcended the Bay Area and this tunnel was part of his daily commute.” 
 
 The 63-year-old actor committed suicide at his home on the Tiburon peninsula on August 11, 2014.
– Unless fans of failed 1853 Whig Party gubernatorial candidate William Waldo make a last stand, California will soon be getting a Robin Williams Tunnel. A bill to rename the tunnel, which connects the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County and was once part of the comedian's daily commute, sailed through the California Assembly 76-0 yesterday, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The tunnel is currently known as the Waldo Tunnel and has also been nicknamed the "Rainbow Tunnel" because of its painted archways, NBC Bay Area reports. The bill, which started out as an online petition, will now be considered by the state Senate. The tunnel's rainbows "personify Robin in that he was so playful, fun, accessible, alive, and colorful" and are also reminiscent of the suspenders he wore in Mork and Mindy, writes petition starter Julie Wainwright, who lived near Williams in Marin County. "Robin was a one-of-a-kind type of person, and I want him to be honored in an unconventional, everlasting, and beautiful way," she writes. (Williams made sure that you won't be seeing him as a Tupac-style hologram for at least 25 years.)