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from Artur Fürst, Das Weltreich der Technik (volume II), 1924.
"An example of the scale of supply lines that must be relaid when a rapid transit tunnel gets built underneath an important intersection.
Sewer mains,
Water mains,
Gas mains,
Pole-mains (telegraph cable, telephone cable, pneumatic tubes),
High voltage cable for the electric works,
Alarm mains for the fire department. After [Erich] Giese, Das zukünftige Schnellbahnnetz für Groß-Berlin [The Future Rapid Transit Network of Greater Berlin, 1919]."
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