Although the cause is still unknown , this tragic explosion destroyed two buildings supplied gas 127 years in the area of East Harlem provides you with an obvious reality: the old and vulnerable which is largely infrastructure New York and many other cities around the country . A detailed report published just a day before the explosion on Wednesday estimated 47 000 million needed to repair and replace infrastructure over the next five years to escape the chaos in New York . The cost of such work on bridges , roads , public transport and other areas across the country almost incalculable. Only upgrading of water and sanitation in the country is estimated at three billion to five billion dollars over the next 20 years , in accordance with the Competitive Enterprise Institute ( Competitive Enterprise Institute ) , a conservative think tank in Washington. Politicians often say Obviously acerca infrastructure , but the question is monopolized reflectors on Thursday during the investigators are trying to determine how and why the natural gas leak suspected cause of the explosion that destroyed two homes , caused the death of at least eight people and injured 60 . Gas pipeline connecting the building included a section of cast iron since 1887 , while the next water supply pipe was built in 1897. Federal investigators said the pipes broke , but do not know if this contributed to the explosion of gas or was caused by the flash. What it did was remind New Yorkers that the company Consolidated Edison, that natural gas supplies in the vicinity of East Harlem and much of the city is widely used pipe , since the nineteenth century. I can not imagine how we in New York underground pipes that were placed in 1800 , said Charles Rangel, the Harlem Democrat in Congress. I do not know what they are talking acerca You infrastructure , but the town is getting worse , I added . Mayor Bill de Blasio, who took office Jan. 1 , said that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide more assistance to American cities to make repairs and replace its aging infrastructure. The day before the explosion, the Research Center in New York on public policy , the Center for Urban Future , published a detailed report on the infrastructure of New York in which he said the problem could spell disaster for the citys economy and quality of life if you do not properly attended . ve calculated that you need 47,300 million over the next five years to repair and key replacements. The reports author , Adam Foreman, Mayor Michael Bloomberg [Unlink] , however, who held the mayor of New York from 2002 to 2013 , made a significant amount of new construction , but said the city stopped doing its infrastructure maintenance during this time . Foreman suggested that the federal government will have to help pay for the repairs , but in his report also states that in New York managed to get the money you need through a program of residential parking permits and an increase in toll rates of the East River bridges connecting Manhattan with Queens and Brooklyn. In accordance with the report form : - More than 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles ) of water pipes in the city of New York has more than 100 years. 400 pipe breaks occurred in recent years annually . - More than 160 bridges in the five boroughs were built over a hundred years ago, and 47 of them have been declared structurally deficit in 2012 and the possibility of a breakup. Department of Transportation of New York said that it continues to use gas pipes , cast on an area 4830 km ( 3000 miles ) away, and Boston is close to 3220 kilometers (2000 miles ) and 2415 km from Philadelphia (1500 km).
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:27:44 +0000