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You can probably find it in some '60s future somewhere. Why would you build a perfectly fine tunnel and use that for irregular traffic, when you can hide the traffic and have the street for mixed use [-1]? We have had trash chutes [0] and AVAC [1] for centuries in Sweden (not always connected unfortunately). My local garbage truck have one of those robotic arms, and I don't live anywhere fancy. So I can't say I get it.

[-1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_street [0] https://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=en&sl=sv&tl=... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_vacuum_collection [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sopbil_skelleftea.jp...

Nope, Roosevelt Island in New York: https://www.wired.com/2010/08/trash-sucking-island/

Disney does it.

https://www.waste360.com/waste-reduction/look-walt-disney-wo...

In a sense isn't that what every alleyway in the world is?

only in the sense that ignores all the ways it's different to an alley.

Chicago used to do it.