Name: 紐約市街面下藏著什麼驚奇？ (What's Under the Street in NYC?)
Uploaded: 2026-01-15T13:56:55.000Z
Duration: 8 min 20 s

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But for New York City's utilities, there's actually a lot going on down there.

但對紐約市的公用事業來說，下面其實有很多事情在發生。

We're talking about high voltage electricity cables, fiber optics carrying Internet and pipes carrying millions of gallons of water cramped in the dark space beneath the streets.

我們說的是高壓電纜、傳輸網路的光纖，以及在街道下方的黑暗空間裡擠滿了數百萬加侖水的管道。

But here's the thing I've never understood.

New York is crowded above ground, so how on earth is there room for all of that below ground?

紐約地面上已經很擁擠了，那地下到底怎麼會有空間容納所有這些東西？

And when a hundred year old water main breaks down there, how do you fix it without disrupting everything else?

當百年老舊的水管在那裡爆裂時，你怎麼在不影響其他一切的情況下修復它？

To find out, the Department of Design and Construction is letting us step inside an active work site in lower Manhattan.

為了找出答案，設計與建築局讓我們深入曼哈頓下城一個正在運作的工地。

They're going to show us something they call spaghetti.

他們要給我們看一樣他們稱之為「義大利麵」的東西。

Describe what these steam stacks are for and explain why construction in New York City is unlike construction anywhere else in the world.

說明這些蒸汽管線的用途，並解釋為什麼紐約市的建築工程與世界其他地方都不同。

I'm Tom Nguyen, Deputy Commissioner for Infrastructure at the Department of Design and Construction here in New York City.

我是 Tom Nguyen，紐約市設計與建築局的基礎設施副局長。

We were just talking about this term, the spaghetti.

我們剛剛在聊這個「義大利麵」的說法。

Underneath the streets of New York, there are multiple systems.

紐約的街道底下，有許多系統。

瓦斯、蒸汽、水、汙水、電信。

Those pipes, for better part of a century, were never really planned as to where they go.

這些管線，在將近一個世紀的時間裡，都沒有真正規劃過它們的走向。

And over the years they've kind of been put in and over, under and around.

而且隨著時間過去，它們就被這樣隨意地鋪設，在上方、下方、還有周圍。

It looks like a bowl of spaghetti in the ground.

看起來就像地底下的一碗義大利麵。

Looking at the spaghetti, can you tell us what's actually under here?

看著這碗義大利麵，你能告訴我們這裡面到底有什麼嗎？

If you look back there, you'll see the green is gas and then these are electrical and that's telecom.

如果你往後面看，你會看到綠色的是瓦斯，然後這些是電線，那是電信。

When you're designing a project like this, are you going in with some sort of map?

在設計像這樣的專案時，你們會帶著某種地圖嗎？

There are often dozens of drawings, some of them much better than others.

通常會有幾十張圖，有些比其他的要好得多。

The private utility drawings, some of them are really good.

私人管線的圖，有些真的很好。

You arrive at an intersection, you close off the street.

你們到了一個路口，封鎖了這條街。

How do you actually start digging without breaking the pipes and wires that are underneath there?

怎麼在不弄破底下的水管和電線的情況下開始挖掘？

We saw cut the street, which is a relatively shallow blade, just to kind of cut through the asphalt and concrete.

我們會對街道做切割，用相對淺的刀片，只是為了切開瀝青和混凝土。

We will then chop out the roadway and then we will start cleaning it up, putting in all new systems, and

然後我們會把路面挖掉，接著開始清理，全部換上新系統，然後

then hopefully setting ourselves up for the future by marking where everything is.

希望能透過標記所有東西的位置，為未來做好準備。

Some of the facilities, when we break out the Encasement, in order to move them, still need to be supported.

有些設施，當我們敲開外殼時，為了移動它們，仍然需要支撐。

And so we will put a beam up, and then we'll strap them, and

所以我們會架設一根梁，然後把它們綁起來，

we hang everything from that beam until we're ready to put it into its permanent position.

我們會把所有東西都吊在那根樑上，直到我們準備好把它們放到永久位置。

This is continuing down the street for miles and miles.

Do you have to then cut this and then rip this and then just go forever?

你們是不是得把它們切開，然後撕開，然後就一直這樣做下去？

Every one of us who works for the city knows that we are caretakers of a system that will outlast our lives and that we are handing it off to the future generations.

我們每一個為這個城市工作的人都知道，我們是這個系統的守護者，它將比我們的生命更長久，而我們正將它傳承給後代。

Okay, something that I was thinking about.

In most American cities and towns, you see power lines and telephone poles everywhere.

在美國大部分的城鎮，到處都看得到電線和電話線桿。

If you go to certain parts of the outer boroughs, you see some overhead spaghetti.

如果你去到外圍區的某些地方，會看到一些像義大利麵一樣纏繞的線路。

It's messy, but it's manageable because the buildings are smaller.

雖然有點亂，但還好處理，因為建築物比較小。

You have huge buildings and massive skyscrapers housing thousands of of people and businesses.

你有巨大的建築和高聳入雲的摩天大樓，住著成千上萬的人和企業。

Imagine taking all the wires from the outer burrows, multiplying them, and shoving them under the pavement.

想像一下，把外圍區所有的電線都拿出來，乘以幾倍，然後塞到路面底下。

That is the tangled mess we're dealing with.

這就是我們正在處理的混亂局面。

So let me give you a tour of the hull, as we like to affectionately call it.

所以，讓我帶你們參觀一下這個「船體」，我們都這麼親切地稱呼它。

This pipe here, that's a cast iron water main circa about 120 years old.

這根管子是大概 120 年前的鑄鐵供水幹管。

And that's actually the driver for this project.

In order to get to that water main, we need to manage all the other facilities that you'll see here in the hole.

為了要接觸到那根供水幹管，我們需要處理好這裡所有你會看到的其他管線。

Those, those plastic ducts there are also telephone.

那些、那些塑膠導管也是電話線。

You're seeing these pipes run along here.

The sewers are actually brick in a lot of cases, or very, very old clay pipes.

很多情況下，下水道是用磚塊砌成的，或是非常非常舊的陶管。

Those are also between 100 and 150 years old.

那些也都有 100 到 150 年的歷史了。

You won't be able to see the sewer here because it's so deep.

你沒辦法在這裡看到下水道，因為它太深了。

Much of what we're standing on is live and active.

我們腳下的大部分地方都是有電且正在運作的。

We're keeping the water fountains working.

Is there anything underneath that pipe that we could look at, underneath the stack?

那根管子下面有沒有什麼東西可以讓我們看看，在堆疊的下面？

Have you ever seen these before around New York?

And this guy's been going strong for like, a day.

而且這個東西已經運作一整天了。

We love just smoke in the middle of the street.

And again, I don't know what it is, so I don't think too hard about the.

而且說真的，我不知道那是什麼，所以我也沒多想。

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