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* Portland, Oregon, has a nifty system of tunnels, popularly known as the Shanghai tunnels, which according to possibly dubious 19th century historical record, were used to kidnap men (known as "shanghaiing") as free labor on the ships that sailed in and out of the city's port.
* More mundanely, many cities have tunnel networks with trains running though them.
** [[Toronto]] and [[Montreal]] have networks of pedestrian tunnels connecting office towers, stores, and mass-transit hubs in their core downtown neighbourhoods. Toronto's [https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-services/path-torontos-downtown-pedestrian-walkway/ PATH] and Montreal's [[w:Underground City, Montreal|RÉSO]] each have approximately 20 miles of tunnels.
* Fortresses of the [[wikipedia:Maginot Line|Maginot Line]] were connected by tunnels. Pity [[World War II|they proved to be so useless]].
* The city of Tabor in Hussite War-era Bohemia had a full tunnel system dug beneath it (this was the early 15th century!). The system was designed so that the militia could rush through the tunnels to the heart of town if an enemy attacked, while the enemy was forced to negotiate a series of narrow streets so that no matter where they emerged, they'd walk into a massed barrage. The tunnels were full of food and beer to sustain the militia in case of siege as well.
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