The Boat Trip! A way to Visit, Educate & Learn

Hi There Fellaz,

How ya doin’? Hope you all had a good weekend!

I have to start by thanking Bruce for organizing this first instructive field trip.

We all had a great time and learnt more about the city of Boston and its history.

For instance, facts like the big dig and the cleaning of the harbor allowed us to develop a more precise knowledge of what are the economic advantages and strengths of Boston city and how those two main events evolved and collided with the economic growth of the city and its region.

Indeed, the Big Dig is a project that revolutionized the urban life and traffic circulation within the city and its suburbs. Where is now what we call the green area there used to be a big highway. This precise highway was a major cause for noise and pollution and literally separated Boston in two.

The project ended up in costing Boston city billions of dollars as the project ended five years later than initially planned. Although, achieving this project has led to immense satisfaction and pride for the Bostonians since and has allowed the city’s economy to fructify the new signs of an upcoming wealth and develop itself in a new tradition of respect towards nature and the environment.

In other words, the Big Dig was a real success and appeared to be one of the most impressive achievements the city had ever made. Literally, they had to freeze some parts of the ground and dig under so that the buildings wouldn’t collapse. This was a grandiose engineering process.

At last, the cleaning of the Boston’s Harbor was another major achievement. Boston was well known for its merchant activities and its numerous shipping from one central point, the Harbor.

Therefore, this created a real need and challenge for the Bostonians. They were facing for the first time massive pollution of the Harbor and economic priorities. But finally the cleaning process begun and visitors and tourists can now come to see the harbor and appreciate fully the view of the 34 islands and its nature.

Since, Boston has officially turned into a much more ecological and pleasant city as of as much for its citizens, students or visitors. This has been a great change for Boston and appears to be nowadays a great example of a rapid evolution of the urban environment learning how to adapt its infrastuctures to the new worldwide ecological priorities.

See you guys tomorrow!

Terence