Located at the end of the Victoria Underground line and housed in a late 1930s covered market, Granville Arcade is the scene of a recent regeneration project led by Spacemakers, an enterprise that transforms neglected and abandoned buildings in the UK. Along with its neighbouring buildings, Reliance Arcade and Market Row, Granville Arcade was awarded Grade II heritage status in 2010 for its architectural and cultural significance.
The problem with HS2 for Ealing, in west London, was the line followed the route of the London Underground Central Line.
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Arlington was a relatively suburban part of the DC metro area until a new underground subway line was put through.
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Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.
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There were also problems on the London Underground's Jubilee Line because of signal failure at Neasden.
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Transport for London confirmed to the BBC that it would receive the loan for the extension on London Underground's Northern Line and run the project.
To see why, consider the controversy last week after safety scares led to the closure of London Underground's Northern Line to the frustration of around 600, 000 commuters.
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This setback came a week after the announcement of further delays on one of Britain's largest construction projects, the extension of London Underground's Jubilee Line from Westminster to Stratford in east London.
It is the first orbital rail route for London since the Circle Line on London Underground was built in 1884.
Workers on the Piccadilly Line on London Underground (LU) are to be balloted for strike action in a row over working conditions.
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The HS2 project has not considered the cost of lost time for commuters, disruption to the Central Line on London Underground, and the loss to businesses as people might be put off from going to the area because of the traffic, she added.
"Early indications are that a contractor doing underground work struck a natural gas line, but the investigation continues, " according to the utility, Missouri Gas Energy.
For the moment, they are more worried about the closure of the Central Line on London's Underground.
In March, a multi-million-pound fraud trial over the construction of the Jubilee Line on London's underground was abandoned after nearly two years when a disgruntled juror walked out.
He said the biggest challenge on the horizon for the London Underground map would be the forthcoming Crossrail line linking Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west and Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.
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Several times a year a cruise line photographer shoots footage of the underground gold mine for its brochures and promo videos.
And investments, including the Underground's current star project, the Jubilee Line extension, have sometimes been guided more by political considerations than by careful cost-benefit analysis.
About 1, 200 shacks had been built on the land, which is crossed by a shallow underground fuel pipe, a power pylon and a railway line.
In the summer the RMT claimed London Underground (LU) planned to move the entire Jubilee line to driverless operation within three years, with trials starting later this year, with other lines to follow.
Declared the European Green Capital in 2010, Stockholm is investing in new construction like the City Line tunnel, which will put commuter rail lines underground and double the number of trains able to move through the city.
The company is also exploring ways to capture carbon for underground storage, and it has proposed a massive 550-mile power line spanning from West Virginia to New Jersey to help alleviate the region's power needs.
Then, inspired by NYC's High Line, Fletcher Priest won the Green Infrastructure Ideas Competition with his proposal for an underground mushroom tunnel beneath the streets of London.
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