FERRIES ARE AN INTRICATE PART OF OUR LIVES

摘要

For people that live in seaside cities and coastal communities, ferries are an intricate part of the fabric of their lives. Just looking around New York Harbor, publicly and privately operated ferries take high school students to and from classes on Governors Island, connect Manhattan hipsters with trendy lounges in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and white-collared workers from suburban New Jersey to their office jobs on Wall Street. This scenario not only plays out around New York, but in other cities around the world. In some cases, ferries may be the only links islanders have with the mainland or with each other. If you think of cities and towns as living organisms, then it's easy to imagine ferry routes, rail lines, roads, and highways as their circulatory system, bringing vital socio-economic "nutrients" in the form of people, goods and equipment to keep communities and businesses thriving and healthy.