I was watching some old Modern Marvels episodes a while ago, and they had one on tunnel #3 that sent me down the same rabbit hole.
In the 1950s they realized that tunnels 1 and 2 were in severe disrepair and hemmoraging water, so they proposed tunnel 3 as a bypass so they can shut down the original tunnels for inspection and repair while still provide the city with clean water. Construction started in the 1970s, and because of capitalism's basic inability to fix or update infrastructure the construction of the original tunnel 3 is still underway. New York's water supply has been in severe disrepair for 70 fucking years! It's a microcosm of the exact same way we're failing to address climate change and all of the other meaningful issues of the last century.
I was watching some old Modern Marvels episodes a while ago, and they had one on tunnel #3 that sent me down the same rabbit hole.
In the 1950s they realized that tunnels 1 and 2 were in severe disrepair and hemmoraging water, so they proposed tunnel 3 as a bypass so they can shut down the original tunnels for inspection and repair while still provide the city with clean water. Construction started in the 1970s, and because of capitalism's basic inability to fix or update infrastructure the construction of the original tunnel 3 is still underway. New York's water supply has been in severe disrepair for 70 fucking years! It's a microcosm of the exact same way we're failing to address climate change and all of the other meaningful issues of the last century.
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Oh absolutely, the modern marvel manages to be the fact that the originals work good enough for everyone to pretend it's not a problem.