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Gradual heating of the ground is definitely a thing; over the decades, certain London Tube lines have drifted from pleasantly cool to sweltering: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/central-line-temperature-lon...

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Yes, people are literally dying in the heat from heart attacks because city planning won't allow TFL to knoxk down a house sp they cam build a ventillation shaft

Do the tubes never cross a road? Why knock down a building instead of taking a vent to a street?

I think you're underestimating the size of vent needed.

They'll turn the entire plot into a single giant chimney, and decorate the face to match the houses either side of it.

like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/58_Joralemon_Street

Ah I was thinking of the subway vents you see along the street and sidewalks in New York. That is indeed a drastically different scale.

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