This is like a machine that it's always something you need to fix, to oil, to repaint, to clean and possibly to replace. 这就像一台机器,总有些东西你需要修理,加油,重新粉刷，清洗及可能的进行更换部件。 The Manhattan...
Ease of movement is the very purpose of the subway, and its genius. Sooner or later, the tracks end, but not the connections. By linking to every other transit system in New York, the subway extends its reach far beyond the end of the line. Just bloc...
Safety is at premium. As it moves through New York's crowded harbour, the Molinari carries an electronic life preserver, the collision avoidance system. In real time it constantly tracks the name, position and course of every vessel in the harbor, li...
Unlike the subway, it's free. It's New York's most reliable form of mass transit. More than 96% of the trips on schedule despite slit, snow, fog and traffic. New York Harbour is one of the busiest harbours in the world and of course the Staten Island...
To smooth transfers among subway lines and tunnel direct connection between the subway and trains, stations will be consolidated into one vast hub, connections will be direct. Moving walkways will flow from one system to the next, in turn, the new pa...
It's a city within the city. You have to look over 50,000 people. You'll be so alive when you're down here. What you would see mostly is when you came out for lunch on a beautiful day, when everyone is coming out of the buildings and then of course,...
They replaced ties, track, ductwork and strung almost 100 hundred kilometers of cable. All the while, other crews worked 16-hour days, 6 days a week to rebuild the entire station from scratch. 他们替换了各种设施，包括管道系统和近1万公...
PATH is one of the world's smallest railways, just 23 kilometers, but it links Northern New Jersey to all 1,300 kilometers of the New York subway system. Each day, the trains make hundreds of trips, carrying almost 200,000 commuters. Like the subway,...
People remember two kinds of images from 9.11. This is the other one, hundreds of thousands of subway riders walking for safety, walking for home, walking anywhere. In the wake of the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center, the world's big...
Yet for the motorman who drives the trains, it's no joy ride. 但对于驾驶列车的车长来说,永远没有欢乐之旅。 One of the biggest misconception of this job is that, er, is very easy, and you have to pay very very close attention to ev...
We're expected to be perfect every single day. We're dealing with millions of people and it only takes one person to delay everything. It could be a sick passenger. It could be a crime. 我们被期望每一天都是完美的。我们正在应对数以...
Abe Manhas has been a motorman for 21 years. Today,he is driving his favorite route, the number 3 line. 阿比麦哈斯是一名驾龄已经有21年的驾驶员。今天,他仍旧驾驶着自己最喜欢的线路3号线。 I think it's one of the nic...
Twenty-seven lines run along 1300 kilometers of track, enough to stretch from Rome to Amsterdam, linking the system 468 stations, more than any other system in the world. The system extends its reach through a complex web of infrastructure, 68 bridge...
New York has a second nickname, the city that never sleeps, an insomnia metropolis in perpetual motion. Like the city, the subway never rests. It runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's the fastest way to get around. Average speed on asphalt 10 kilo...
To really know what makes a great city work, you have to peel back its skin and expose its secret life force. A system of incredible complexity and technology, the millions depend on but few understand. A fantastic voyage now begins, a journey deep i...
