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| Engineering The Impossible |
Subways in America
Extreme EngineeringDiscovery Channel | Science | Technology
April 15, 2003
Country: Italy
Project: Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
At the heart of every city in the world, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, life is troubling paradox. Attracting more and more people is the key to sustaining their rich culture and thriving economy. But, it is very pressure people that make sit harder and harder to get around. To solve this riddle engineers have looked away from crowded streets in Grand Boulevard and gone underground instead. Everyday somewhere in the world, forty million people ride the subway. In London, it's the tube, Paris, the metro, Tokyo has a subway and so as in Hong Kong and then there is New York City. 3,484 skyscrapers grounded 220 square miles and some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.
While underground lies the subway that keeps New York moving at such a frenetic pace. 842 miles long transporting 4.5 million passengers a day. Early on the New York subway was the greatest and most advanced mass transit system in the world. But after years of neglect New York's prize system would literally start falling apart. Today, the subway is coming back with plans for a new super system that will take it deeper further and faster than ever before.
Can it be built? Will it work? Would it bankrupt the city? Will New Yorks's ambitious plan leave all other great cities into the future of mass transit or becoming engineering boondoggle of all time?
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Subways in America.
Project: Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
At the heart of every city in the world, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, life is troubling paradox. Attracting more and more people is the key to sustaining their rich culture and thriving economy. But, it is very pressure people that make sit harder and harder to get around. To solve this riddle engineers have looked away from crowded streets in Grand Boulevard and gone underground instead. Everyday somewhere in the world, forty million people ride the subway. In London, it's the tube, Paris, the metro, Tokyo has a subway and so as in Hong Kong and then there is New York City. 3,484 skyscrapers grounded 220 square miles and some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.
While underground lies the subway that keeps New York moving at such a frenetic pace. 842 miles long transporting 4.5 million passengers a day. Early on the New York subway was the greatest and most advanced mass transit system in the world. But after years of neglect New York's prize system would literally start falling apart. Today, the subway is coming back with plans for a new super system that will take it deeper further and faster than ever before.
Can it be built? Will it work? Would it bankrupt the city? Will New Yorks's ambitious plan leave all other great cities into the future of mass transit or becoming engineering boondoggle of all time?
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Extreme Engineering in this episode Subways in America.
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