[Untitled Transportation In NYC]

food is accessible to every pair but it takes more  than an address stamped on a crate to get goods from Iowa to Stockholm the car detached from its  train is shuttered toward a classification yard and eventually reaches the railroad lighter  each terminal from there the freight will be lighter to the proper pierside along with other  shipments bound for the same destination [Music] through the port each year moves the  Titanic total of a hundred and twenty million tons of Commerce a traffic unmanageable  without the mechanical marvels to expedite such as an extremely mobile train  a tractor-trailer a fork truck or a carrier which Kanaan silently straddle and  grab up enough lumber to build a two-car garage and for hoisting jobs demanding really  stupendous power floating Derrick's can swing up to 300 tons this locomotive tender  is simple but a port needs plans as well as muscle and machines to that end works  the Port of New York Authority headed by a commission staffed equally by new  york and new jersey an agency created 25 years ago to unify terminal operations and  to promote and protect the Commerce of the port it builds and manages great facilities  tunnels bridges and plans port development the Holland Tunnel is one of two under  the Hudson River which expedites the flow of vehicular traffic between New  Jersey and New York the safe operation of these tubes 42 feet below the river  bottom means constant engineering a huge ventilating system blows a complete  change of fresh air into the tunnels every minute and a half draws out carbon  monoxide fumes from car exhausts [Music] and should you run out of gas anyplace in the  nine thousand foot long tunnel Port Authority police spring into instant action a powerful  tow truck hauls you out in a hurry without charge for a car to be stalled more than a  minute would mean a tie up in traffic and traffic is a ticklish problem with millions  of vehicles yearly pouring into New York Port Authority projects go over as well as under  the Hudson the George Washington Bridge is one of the agencies for magnificent structures which  span the various rivers and bays of the fourth one of the nation's greatest bridges frosting 60  million dollars the George Washington like the tunnels entails a monumental task of maintenance  rewarding cables must be checked religiously and of such magnitude is the paint requirement  that a complete job takes a four-year cycle just as soon as the paint is finished  they start all over again this then is the sum total of a superbly coordinated  enterprise an effort evaluated not only in the metered measures of a mechanical  age but fused with simple sweated toys