tunnels
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The Enormous Caverns Below New York City Are Starting To Look Like Train Tunnels
It’s been several months since we last checked in with New York City’s perennially delayed, incredibly expensive infrastructural wonder: The East Side Access project, a plan to build a new station beneath Grand Central station that will connect Manhattan and Queens. Deep below the city, work continues — and now, the MTA has given us…
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7 Big Ways Cities Have Transformed Themselves For Bikes
The number of bikes in our cities is increasing, and with that increase we’re also seeing some major changes in the way cities are designed. Engineers are giving bikes their own bridges, tunnels, overpasses, even escalators, making biking feel like it’s an essential, permanent part of the city.
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The Huge Mist Cannons That Keep The Air Clean In NYC’s New Tunnels
We’ve followed the $US10.8 billion East Side Access project, which will extend the Long Island Railroad from Queens to Grand Central, all year. But now that the tunnels have been blasted, new machines are arriving — and they’re just as cool as the tunnel borers.
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This Giant Mechanical Earthworm Is Fixing One City’s Poop Problem
Washington DC is overflowing with crap — and not just the sort spewed in US Congress. Rather, its ancient sewage system regularly overflows, sending a literal river of poo into the city’s waterways. Lady Bird is the name of the giant tunnelling machine sent to stop it.