As I hail from tropical climate, summer is a much awaited season. It is a lively season with people buzzing around on the path ways and trails. Strolling grand parents who are visiting from back home, people burning calories, toddlers improving their motor skills and kids with bicycles and scooters is a vibrant picturesque so unique to Summer – a season with parks and barbecues, Popsicles and lemonade.
Among these entire, Road trip is one of my favorite venture. Every time I go on the road trip here in US I will not fallback from appreciating the infrastructure that they have created. Whether it is the long stretching bridges, the tunnels running underground with the river or the high raising buildings over them, every thing exemplifies the meticulous well planned outcome. Maintaining these well laid infrastructures all through these years is a magnanimous effort in itself.
A road trip to Boston few weeks back has exposed the 'Big Dig' project - an infrastructure project for managing traffic in Boston. If having a vision for modern architecture and efficient planning of infrastructure for years to come is one passionate and intellectual aspect, executing that vision to reality needs much more skill and knowledge. The visionaries have a challenge to consider needs and growth of population, the rescue plans, the maintenance to name a few keeping aside the practical hurdles that have to be addressed for implementing it. I was wondering about the two lane tunnel in NY City all these years but the 6 lane tunnels with exits within the tunnels in Boston left me awe struck. Of course, the Big Dig project is quite recent, when technology was much matured compared to the times of construction of NY tunnels.
It is so apt to say America icons for modern infrastructure. All its infrastructure projects from Hoover dam to Erie Canal project to Tunnels in Boston shows their vision, planning, organizing and execution skills which everyone from individuals to nations could learn and inspire.
All said, have you ever felt gruesome while riding through the tunnels? I do. I will be looking for the end of the tunnel as eagerly as admiring the infrastructure. :) . I wonder what would be the experience riding through the Channel Tunnel - Tunnel connecting UK to France.
