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The Rapid Transit systems of the metropolitan areas of the following 14 U.S. cities include underground service. They are listed in chronological order by when their first underground service began.

  • Boston, Massachusetts - 1 September 1897
  • New York, New York - 27 October 1904
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1906
  • Newark, New Jersey - 26 May 1935 *
  • Chicago, Illinois - 17 October 1943
  • Cleveland, Ohio - 15 March 1955
  • San Francisco, California - 11 September 1972
  • Washington, District of Columbia - 27 March 1976
  • Atlanta, Georgia - 30 June 1979
  • Baltimore, Maryland - 21 November 1983
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 15 April 1984
  • Buffalo, New York - 1984
  • Los Angeles, California - 14 July 1990
  • Seattle, Washington - 15 September 1990 (rail service added in 2007)

* The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH), a service connecting New York City and Newark, New Jersey via a rail tunnel under the Hudson River, began service on 25 February 1908.

The first transportation tunnel in the United States was the Auburn Tunnel. It was a canal tunnel near Auburn, Pennsylvania built for the Schuylkill Canal. It was opened in 1821 and closed in 1857.

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