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10/26/2010 对这里的爱 你不懂 不会明白 Vol.2希望你可以看到此段放在YouTube上的视频。 这就是波士顿的清晨 远处有一个大风车你可能看不清 刚刚开始有一家刚刚从Logan Airport起飞的小飞机 稍后又出现了前往Fisher Pier的快艇 就是这里。 关于Windows Live Spaces搬迁 推荐你去blogspot开始新的部落格 因为wordpress.com实在适应不了已经习惯这里的人们 10/11/2010 对这里的爱 你不懂 不会明白 Vol.1Boston, what is called the first city in the United States of America, has the longest history. The origin of American Revolution, the Boston Tea Party, broke out in 1773 at Boston Harbor; the first public beach of the Nation, Revere Beach, established in 1896 in Greater Boston; the first subway system in North America, Tremont Street Subway(now is a part of the MBTA Green Line), opened on September 1st, 1897. It is Fortunate that the oldest part of Boston subways is still providing services to Bostonians in nowadays. The entire public transportation system among the Greater Boston has experienced and undergone many stages, re-planning, re-constructions, and modifications. It’s hard to believe in everyday commuting on the T, we are running on the tracks which were served for hundred years.
The history of the public transportation system in Boston can be all the way tracked back to late eighteenth century. The public transportation system composed by many kinds of vehicles: from the very beginning, such as stage coaches and omnibuses; to recent years, trains, buses, and trolleys. Meanwhile, there are many different means of transportation occurred during these periods as well. From underneath the ground, subways, to the higher up, elevated railways. In 1793, a private stagecoach service started running between Cambridge and Boston via the West Boston Bridge, which now called Longfellow Bridge. A Stagecoach is a kind of horse-drawn vehicle provides service to the public. The first transit service in the real sense occurred in 1826, an omnibus line ran between Boston and Cambridge. The real sense transit service indicates that a form of public transportation running on a regularly scheduled basis, and the omnibus is similar to stagecoaches, but it is more like a bus. By 1830, another line was opened ran to Roxbury. These two omnibus lines used the similar routes as the two major subway lines we having now: the Red Line, and the Orange Line. Time flies to the mid-nineteenth century, the public had a great demand on the public transit due to the increased population during that time. The first street car service was running by horses from Harvard Square to Bowdoin Square in 1856. Begun from this time, street railways expanded rapidly in order to fulfill the great demands by the public, and people were prefer horse railways to the omnibus, it is much more comfortable. While the city of Boston were expanding and transforming from a little mercantile city to a larger business center and established connections with the suburbs as bedroom suburbs, the development of street railways faced a difficult situation that other cities didn’t have: the downtown Boston has only two main streets, Tremont Street and Washington Street. All the traffic from Cambridge, Charlestown, South Boston, Dorchester, West End and Roxbury was merged to these two streets like a funnel. This caused the whole system overloaded and made the traffic in downtown area a mess. Number of riders climbed from 50 million by 1860 to 80 million in 1885. Horses were flooded the city.
Later on, more problems became obvious to the transportation thereupon: the horse-drawn street cars were unable to travel long distance neither carry too many passengers. “Horse keeping” was also a big issue. The city considered about eht cable car but it does not feasible on Boston’s winding roads. Only until 1887, the first electric streetcar system experiment by Frank Julian Sprague got successes in Richmond, Virginia. Boston finally found a perfect solution to improve the short-coming situation, and electric street cars quickly take the place on the railroad system. More than 90% railroads were running electric street cars by 1892. The electric street car also called a trolley, which uses an over-head power line to operate; this is a kind of mid-size train we now still using on the Green Line light rail lines. Everything seemed went fine, but did not last long. As the amount of passengers continuously grew, the whole transit system went overcapacity again, and the downtown Boston became a mess for a second time. The city started to think a better solution to deal with the fast growing city. The elevated railroads had taken into account. There were many oppositions argued on the noise and ugliness of elevated railroads, but more and more people were in favor of that because of its breath taking feature: Fast. After many researches by the Legislature, the city finally issued Statutes of 1894, Chapter 548 and several later Acts that authorized Boston Elevated Railway Company to build subways and elevated railways among the City of Boston. Part of these Acts were:
From this point on, a new transportation system just came. The Elevated Railways started to spread all over the city.
The government required in the Stat 1897 Chap 500 the construction of subways in the center of Boston, Cambridge, and a tunnel to East Boston under Boston Harbor. These subways are the predecessors of the Red Line and Green Line in nowadays. Especially the subway in the center of Boston, Tremont Street Subway, constructions begun in 1895 and first section opened on September 1st, 1897, was the first subway in the United States, was the state-of-the-art. The Boston Elevated Railway(BERy) expanded really fast from January 23rd, 1899, the first dig, to 1901, the Mainline and Atlantic Avenue loop went on service. By 1904, the entire BERy system(including street railways, elevated railways, and subways) was mainly covered every corner in Boston. It had more than 421 miles (678 km) of tracks. In 1900, the BERy decided to build a separate tunnel underneath Washington Street in order to relieve the traffic in the Tremont Street underground and opened on November 30th, 1908. In 1903, the authority decided to extend its elevated railway system to Forest Hills and opened on November 22nd, 1909. The Washington Street tunnel and Forest Hills extension were gradually became what we are riding now a part of Orange Line. In the same year as Forest Hills Station opened, the construction of Cambridge Subway begun as well. This long subway across the whole Cambridge is exactly what the Red Line using now. In the later years, the development of rapid transit system was more and more like the miniature of contemporary MBTA rapid transit system.
Changes came to the Boston public transportation again during the following decades in twentieth century. The automobile industry had a great development, thus a new kind of vehicle was in vogue, the bus. The first bus route ran between Central Square and Oak Square in 19223, and it became the route 64 as the MBTA operates nowadays. The convinces and flexibility made Bostonians in favor of buses, and since then, the BERy started to replace trolleys with buses or trackless trolleys. By 1985, only several street railways remaining in service, those routes are basically today’s Green Line branches. During that time, more and more households owned personal automobiles, this caused a great decline on ridership of the public transportation. Street Railways were being removed from streets, and Elevated Railway services were being cutback. Finally in 1960s, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) created and started in charge of rapid transit, bus, commuter boat, and commuter rail among the greater Boston. The layout of public transportation was substantially shaped up by the end of twentieth century:
During late twentieth century and beyond, only small modifications have been made to the MBTA system. The Green Line A Branch replaced by route 57 bus in 1969; and the E branch suspended its service between Heath Street and Forest Hills(Arborway) since December 28th, 1985. In 2002, the Silver Line has introduced to the public. This is a BRT (bus rapid transit) service along Washington St. and sooner extended to Airport and Waterfront.
In recent years, many renovation projects have applied to the system in order to generate a modern public transportation system in twenty-first century. At the same time, some suggestions of extend the service to further places are being considered, like the Green Line E Branch Lechmere extension and the Blue Line Bowdoin extension. The oldest city in the United States is keeping itself advanced with the time. 4/21/2008 眾人成日踩親條尾,沒有人能夠事急馬行田,話頭醒尾。赦之。就好像是 一个东西被装在了一个并不符合他的容器里 但却又拼命得想要把它装进去 这可能吗? 我觉得这样只会把自己搞疯 越来越疯 真怕我那天突然受不了了 然后就自尽了 这样很简单 我真的不知道该怎么办了 我不知道我在做什么 我不知道我这是怎么了 我害怕你们 我害怕。是不是要选择离开呢?
出咗半斤力,想話攞返足八両。 6/8/2005 地球吓了一大跳 Vol.5
绵阳市南河体育中心 北川灾民的第二安置点 人口约15000
这就是大家捐赠过来的食品
由于唐家山堰塞湖泄洪的危险 现在这里已经全部清空了 部分已经回到居住点重建家园 部分被转往九州体育馆 希望危险马上过去 6/2/2005 地球吓了一大跳 Vol.4
那你们班主任呢? 你们的家长现在都在什么地方?为什么不和他们在一起?
突然楼外有个老师大喊: 于是大家匆匆忙忙的全都跑出了教室 这事经常发生 我在这里一天就感受到了3次余震
这边是正在给女生们发衣服 不知道这是北京五道口哪家小衣店捐来的这么多小内衣 还全都是系带的 赫赫 ...
后来一个北川中学的朋友发短信告诉我他们高二马上也要复课了 可能还需要在这个地方呆很长时间 还有 临走的第二天 温家宝爷爷又一次来到了这里... 真心的希望孩子们都能够很坚强的早日渡过难关 5/31/2005 地球吓了一大跳 Vol.3
旁边就有人说:这种突发事件换到别的省 他们应付得绝对都没有四川省好 5/26/2005 地球吓了一大跳 Vol.2
这里就是新闻天天在说的地方 绵阳 香樟树是他们的市树,马路两旁栽的全都是
绵阳市抗震救灾指挥部 第9号公告
市区的居民们几乎全都在街边或公园里搭起了帐篷 因为每天一两次的余震让他们根本不敢回楼房里安心入睡 尽管如此 人们的情绪都还是很稳定的 他们期待着能够尽早恢复他们原来的生活 继续上学上班 四川人很坚强。 5/23/2005 地球吓了一大跳 Vol.1
这个时候是5月21日 全国哀悼日的最后一天 这三天来成都的人们一直都激情高涨 但是今天应该是最热闹的 下午的时候一拨由学生自发组织的游行以 天府广场 为起点 一路沿着 总府路 途径 提督街 顺城大街 等 最终又回到了 天府广场 途中不时有街边的人们加入到游行队伍中来
这是他们喊的口号: 中国加油 四川雄起 汶川挺住 天府广场北面的国旗下 堆放着许多前来哀悼的人们所献的花 还有很多条幅和文字
在来成都的路上 有一位同行的绵阳人 他在北京某酒店上班 现在单位放假让他回家乡来看望家人们
最近很热销。
晚上的天府广场一下子聚集了上万人 用各自不同的方式来表达他们对灾难的心痛之情
游行 烛光默哀 吟诵 大声歌唱及喊口号 合影留念 签字 献花儿 中国最强 四川必胜 |
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