alt Hacker News> The tunnels are just for ease of maintenance.
The fact that the tunnels are 50 meter underground leads me to wonder if their main requirement comes from national security needs.
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ant6n • yesterday at 9:58 AM
There’s Probably simply too much city in the way on higher levels.
If you wanna knock out the grid, hit the substations and power plants.
London underground is prime real estate - to find a level and avoid
* the recent new massive and extensive sewer tunnels,
* the secret basement extensions of the ultra rich, multi story archival storage, vaults, etc,
* the new underground tunnels (rail / subway for US readers),
* old roman and other buried but still 'conserved' architecture,
* crypts, graves, plague pits,
* WWII UXB's etc. etc
is a hell of a 3D needle to thread - there's > 2,000 years of urban layering in that small area.