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Edmonton has their LRT system which is UG downtown as well as a PEDWAY system which is partially UG.

The most famous tunnel in Edmonton is the 'Rat Hole', which is no longer in operation and essentially still there but collapsed and built over.


(http://zkahlina.ca/eng/wp-content/up.../rat-hole1.jpg)
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Lesser know or seen is the old CP tunnel that is now part of our historic streetcar route.

http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-conten...l-1280x938.jpg
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Can't forget Montreal's scary tunnels. The Scary tunnels of St. Marc and du Fort in Montreal (pictures and video): http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/en...tryID=10351612


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Old Wellington tunnel is haunted.


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Le Tunnel Dufferin in Quebec City and its history has always fascinated me.

http://www.quebecurbain.qc.ca/2011/1...ous-nos-pieds/
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Tunnel Saint-Rémi under the Lachine canal

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Based on the information in the Highways thread, this could be another 400-series highway, particularly as it would connect to a Quebec Autoroute.
Where (date or post #) on the highway thread? I don't think it would be a 400 series as a truck tunnel, right?
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2015, 10:31 PM
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Montreal "punches below grade" (above its weight ) in tunnels.
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Obligatory comment regarding how Calgary punches above it's weight in terms of digging per capita holes in the ground.
How much does an average hole weigh?
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In Metro Vancouver:

Skytrain tunnels:
Dunsmuir Tunnel (Now Skytrain, former CPR)
http://www.miss604.com/2010/07/tunne...rs-choice.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAR...52FA9B&index=8
(After the Train comes out of the tunnel, the Skytrain guideway is on the old ground level, just a metre or so above sea level. East Cordova is above. You can see the lower floors of the Marine Building, which was built on the edge of a cliff. If you were there in the train you could see lower floors of some buildings, as well as parking. Cordova was built above in like 2002 or something. There are photos around on the internet what the area looked like before and after all of this. It's like a tiny version of Pioneer square in Seattle. You could drive into part of this going east on Cordova past Waterfront Station, but would be stopped)
Columbia station Tunnel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sillygwailo/201426360/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis...rd/5533579810/
New Westminster Tunnel (under Columbia)
Canada Line Tunnel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxgOMdvvEBc

Heavy Rail Tunnels:
Lonsdale Tunnel (Built to separate freight from street cars)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v2doHiaXJuo/maxresdefault.jpg
http://wikimapia.org/15193574/Lonsdale-Tunnel
Thornton Tunnel (From the south end of the Second Narrows train bridge diagonally under North Burnaby to the main line)
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=s69...=o&form=LMLTCC
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=s6f...=o&form=LMLTCC

Road Tunnels:

Cassiar Tunnel (Twin 3 lanes, decent length freeway tunnel)
http://vuosiamaailmalla.fi/blog/wp-c...ar_tunnel1.jpg

George Massey Tunnel (Twin 2 lanes, under the Fraser River, similar to the river tunnel shown in Montreal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoDPHM_rCJc
Skeena Street Tunnel (rarely mentioned road tunnel under the freeway near the Ironworkers Memorial bridge)

Other:
Canada Post Tunnel (Canada Post built a tunnel from the basement of the Former HQ to what is now Waterfront station)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12...n_4446068.html
http://www.discovervancouver.com/art...r-underground/

UBC, Vancouver General Hospital, both have large steam tunnel networks. VGH, being a hospital campus spanning many buildings, has underground tunnels between them. There is also a hospital tunnel from the main Royal Columbian hospital buildings in New Westminster to the psych ward (former nurses residences).
http://ubyssey.ca/culture/notes-from-the-underground/
http://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=24075
There is also a large section of downtown that is supplied steam heating so presumably there would be at least some human sized tunnels related to that. There are known to be large BC hydro (power utility) vaults, as mentioned during news stories large power outages.
Pacific Centre has part of it's mall underground, under streets, and there are vehicle ramps to go below the street level to park.

Last but not least there were many rumours about Chinatown tunnels, but all the current sources say there were really just connected basements here and there. That being said, Saskatoon and Portland did actually have Chinatown smuggling tunnels, so who knows.

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The Melocheville tunnel in Beauharnois, under the St-Lawrence seaway...



Entry very similar to St-Rémi with the tree columns...

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We have nothing cool that's well understood enough to share.

The Americans built lots of underground tunnels in Pleasantville and along the Southside Hills during WWII. There was also a proposal for an underground stadium beneath the Southside Hills that would've been cool.

Beyond that, we have a small network of tunnels linking our former Parliament with surrounding merchant homes - riot escape routes for politicians (as our Prime Minister in 1932 was almost killed by a rioting mob that sacked the Parliament).

And then there is the MUNnel system, underground tunnels that connect most buildings on the campus of Memorial University.

Beyond that only interesting thing is homes in St. John' that are built into the side of a hill and are four floors high on one side, but only two floors high on the other. The two floors that are underground were generally used for the kitchen and food storage.

There is one cute feature of some of the larger commercial buildings.

This is the Supreme Court:



On the back it looks like this:



If you look on either side of the stairs at the entrance, you'll see wrought iron gates protecting a hole. That hole actually goes down (almost) to ground level on the front of the building. It's a several story drop. They dug that down to allow windows and natural "light" for the offices.

It's actually a little unnerving to walk into court and look down on either side of the stairs.

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Winnipeg has an underground mall right below Portage and Main. That's kinda cool.
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Kingston's got nothing. There's some abandoned tunnels underneath parts of the CBD, including one that links a church to the hospital that reportedly still exists. And unlike most other universities in Canada Queen's does not have a pedestrian tunnel network. All pedestrian traffic movement at Queen's is at surface level outdoors, for the most part, which isn't that big of a deal as the campus is very compact.
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I used to take that train tunnel every day back when I lived in TMR. Apparently there is a shaft somewhere that runs UP to the blue line near Edouard-Monpetit metro station.
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Great new timelapse of the Expo line, where you can see some of the underground tunnels and the part of the city under Cordova st at the very end. You can also see all the development along the way, as the train starts out in Surrey, goes through New West, Burnaby (inlcuding Metrotown), then Collingwood, and finally into the densest part of Vancouver.
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TH &B tunnel in downtown Hamilton. The Go train uses this tunnel to connect to the Hamilton go Station, the end of the line on lakeshore west (until they extent to the james st station and into niagara)



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I take this tunnel 2 times a day with my kids
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History of the Massey Tunnel
I didn't know that it was the lowest roadway in Canada

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Montreal's underground city (the RÉSO). I made good use of this on my visit to Montreal the weekend, as it was so fucking cold.

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It is possible to walk underground from Peel Metro to the edge of Old Montreal.


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The largest underground complex in the world. Woot!

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Montreal Underground city, or la ville souterraine in French, is the largest underground network in the world. Its 32 km (20 mi) of tunnel cover more than 41 city blocks (about 12 km2 (5 sq mi)). Access through the RÉSO can be made to apartment buildings, hotels, offices, banks, and universities, as well as public spaces like retail shops and malls, concert halls, cinemas, the Bell Centre hockey arena, museums, seven metro stations, two train stations (Lucien-L'Allier and Gare Centrale), a bus terminal (Réseau de transport de Longueuil and other transit authorities), and other areas. It connects 80% of office space and 35% of commercial space in downtown Montreal. The network began as a connection between Place Ville Marie, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and the Gare Centrale. More than 2,000 shops and 40 cinemas line the passageways. Tourists often visit attractions in the underground city, which is used by an average of half a million Montrealers per day.
Eight metro stations link to smaller networks that are not yet part of the central network, such as Berri UQAM in the eastern part of downtown and Pie-IX which links venues from the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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Montreal's underground city (the RÉSO).

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The largest underground complex in the world. Woot!
They are passing by so many opportunities to extend the réso, for example the Bell Center area. It feels like it's a down deal and won't ever grow anymore. The city should give out incentives to promoters so they could extend it in a way that make economical sense. Until that time, it won't stay the largest for very long...
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Why? The RESO is essentially a cavernous network of bland shopping malls. Put that street life where it belongs - on the streets.
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