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Transit

This section encompasses the majority of underground tunnels that are designed for anything other than water diversion. Steam tunnels, machine rooms, subway tunnels and all manner of other subterranean works, abandoned and active, are all generally excellent infiltration fodder.
Subway tunnels are in a class of their own, being one of the most foolhardy things a person can explore when they're still active. The risks of electrocution or being maimed by an oncoming train are very real, particularly in tunnels where hiding places like ventilation shafts and machine rooms are few and far between, or where the tunnel has unusually little clearance, like the circular bored-out tunnels.
Nonetheless, subway networks offer many sights to the ambitious urban explorer, and the simple adrenaline of hiding in a ventilation shaft while a train whips by a few feet in front of you is undeniable. One of the highlights of the Toronto subway network is the abandoned Lower Bay subway station, a common attraction for tunnel-runners of the area.
The deserted Lower Bay platform in
Toronto. Steam and utility tunnels, on the other hand, are tunnels run underneath and between buildings to provide utilities like electricity and heat. Large universities and hospitals tend to have extensive steam tunnel networks, which are often designed in fantastically counter-intuitive, convoluted manners. Steam tunnels are often a major target of exploration where they're present, with great effort going to mapping them.
Machine rooms are common things, tucked safely away from the eyes of casual observers, and it's this placement behind a building's facade that makes them appealing. Often found in basements or at the top floors of a building, machine rooms include water pumping stations, phone network distribution closets, elevator control rooms and their ilk. Accessing these places is a challenge in and of itself and is frequently one of the aims of infiltrating an active building.
Like most places you're not supposed to go, machine rooms and utility tunnels aren't designed for people without authorization and safety equipment. Subway tunnels in specific are one of the most dangerous environments you can venture into, so be cautious. You'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else to infiltrate where you'd be as likely to get killed for making a mistake as in an active subway tunnel.


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