Up And Coming Infrastructure and Transportation System
By: Jason Maxwell
Submitted: 2010-12-09 02:23:09 | Word Count: 648
The advent of modern technology has significantly improved the mode of transportation that we presently have and this may be attributed to the modern railroad system, infrastructure such as roads and bridges and the invention of the aircraft and the automobile. All these breakthroughs are due to mans ingenuity in the field of engineering, science and mathematics.
Centuries ago, when the automobile or any other machine-powered form of transportation is yet awaiting invention, travelling and transporting animals and farm produce remain a big problem. Imagine how slow the transportation was as people use donkeys, horses and among others pulling carts, wagons and carriage to transport people and products to their destinations. Medical and social problems were not addressed timely and appropriately because of the delays incurred due to transportation problems and information dissemination.
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The history of how the infrastructure system may have started may be difficult to trace as footpaths, which were first travelled by horses and other animals were then widened to make room for wagons, carts and among others until they became developed, with the invention of automobiles, for cars and buses to travel on. As cars got better, roads and bridges were constructed and got better as more inventions have showed up.
The arrival of the steam engine in the 18th century paved way for the invention of modern railroads and trains. In 1817, John Stevens was granted the first railroad charter in North America and grants soon came one after another bringing the first ever operational railroads. Railroad projects that were being conceptualized during that time got better each time until it became totally operational. In 1970, the US Congress passed the Rail Passenger Service Act for the creation of Amtrak, serving more than 20 million customers annually through its national network of trains transporting people in and out of the city and from one city to another.
Being one of the largest, it employs twenty-three thousand people in different departments performing various tasks. To date, the Vancouver Skytrain, which transported an average of 622,000 passengers per day during the 17 days 2010 Winter Olympics, is the longest automated rapid transit system in the world which travels 80-90 kilometers an hour at top speed and about 45 kilometers an hour on the average. It also includes the longest cable-supported transit-only bridge in the world, the Skybridge, which spans the Fraser River and connects Westminster with Surrey, enables the Skytrain to pass between King George Station and Waterfront Station.
Travelling fast and convenient would not have been possible if not due to the invention of heavy equipment and machines that replaced harrowing manual labor. Instead of doing the work manually, men operated these giant machines to excavate land, lift objects weighing hundreds of tons and among others. The World Trade Center in New York was built by thousands of men and machines and only to be destroyed to rubbles also by men behind machines. Nowadays, buildings that were built for years can now be easily toppled in minutes because of the various inventions made by man. Hence the power of human technology can never be questioned.
If you are in a construction business, having various types of equipment for digging, lifting, pulling objects such as pre-casted posts, steel frames and among others get the work done fast, efficient and convenient. If you are beating deadlines in your contract, all the more that you need heavy equipment to finish the work before the deadlines and before somebody sues you and your company.
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