拉各斯：混凝土城市.docx

LAGOS：CITY OF CONCRETEGiles Omezi拉各斯：混凝土城市加尔斯.欧梅兹“…Elvis did not pay too much attention to the cars that in spite of their speed wove between each other like careful threads of a tapestry. The motorways were the only way getting across the series of towns that made up Lagos.Intent on reaching their destinations,pedestrians dodged between the speeding vehicles as they crossed the wide motorways.It was dangerous,and every day at least ten people were killed trying to cross the road.If they didn’t die when they first car hit them,subsequent cars finished the job.They curious thing,though was that there were hundreds of overhead pedestrian bridges and then crossed underneath them.”“......埃尔维斯并没有过多地关注于车，尽管它们以速度在彼此之间编织像挂毯一样的的精心线程。高速公路是穿越组成拉各斯的一系列的城镇的唯一途径.在穿越宽阔的高速公路时，为了到达目的地，行人在飞速的车轮间躲闪。这是危险的事情，每天至少有十人在试图穿越马路时死亡。如果他们在第一辆车撞他们时没有死，随后汽车会撞死他们.奇怪的是，就算有数百架人行天桥，行人也会从人行天桥下穿过。“Lagos sits on topography dominated by ubiquitous marshlands and a vast lagoon draining several rivers north of the city.It thus presents the road engineer with the dilemma of how to stitch this rapidly expanding city together to aid movement between its constituent parts over such challenging terrain.Over twenty-five years,specifically between 1967 and 1992,the combined efforts of the Federal Government and Lagos State roped the city together using a system of fast expressways,which were viewed as the solution to the traffic problem that was becoming apparent as a major issue as far back as the late 1950s.At this point,the population of the city hovered just below the million mark,today estimates put it at close to eighteen million people.拉各斯坐落在以无处不在沼泽地和巨大的泻湖为主的地势，这个泻湖的水流向几条城北的河流。这种情况使道路工程师陷入窘境，即如何将这个迅速扩张的城市与它的各个组成部分之间的运动辅助整合到一起，并且还是在如此具有挑战性的地形条件上。超过二十五年来，特别是1967年到1992年间，联邦政府和拉各斯州的持续不断的努力拉拢城市一起使用快速的高速公路，早在20世纪50年代末这就被看作是解决交通问题越来越明显的一个主要系统问题.在这一点上，这个城市的人口徘徊着快要跌破万元大关，而如今，估计它在接近1800万人。 The city’s expressway system consists of three north-south axial roads that connect the island of Lagos with the mainland of La