July 30, 2010
Blog ArchivesDisused Rochester Subway: City Asset or Dangerous Abandonment?
Subways reduce the number of commuters congesting city streets and tackle the environmental impact of countless car exhausts. So it’s a strange sight indeed to find an entire subway system abandoned, and a city with no real idea of what to do with it. Welcome to Rochester, New York!
6 Creepy Underground Tunnels, Subways & Sewers
Big cities, especially old ones, often feel like a claustrophobic blend of towering buildings, endless roads, inescapable noise and hectic traffic. It’s incredible to imagine that, beneath many metropolises, an intricate network of tunnels, subways and sewers exist, some silent, others carrying commuters beneath the mayhem of the world above.
Abandoned Cincinnati Subway
Abandoned tunnels are enough to spur the imagination of most urban explorers. The subterranean world beneath some city streets is a labyrinth of deserted subways and abandoned stations. Cincinnati not only hides America’s largest abandoned subway, but one that was also doomed before the completion of the project could ever be realised.
New York Subway’s Beautiful Abandoned City Hall Station
With a recent post delving into the murky underground tunnels of London, it seems only right to mention a true gem from another great city’s subterranea – New York City’s long closed City Hall subway station. From the very beginning, this station was envisioned to be the grand centrepiece of a new transport network, yet it has been largely deserted since 1945. Come in and see…