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Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Feb 7 13:43:55 2020, in response to Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways, posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Feb 6 23:55:35 2020. Alternative history can never be more than speculation.I would guess that even if Robert Moses's parents had never conceived him, a lot of what he did would have happened anyway. The automobile was invented and was popular. Almost assuredly, some funding shift would have gone from transit to highways- though perhaps less. Likely the Cross Bronx Expressway would've taken a less-destructive route. I'd venture to guess we might have the SAS, as it's in dense Manhattan, but the IND Second System wouldn't have gotten very far, as much of it was planned for more car-friendly Queens. Likely there would be some sort of rail transit and a pedestrian walkway on the Verrazano Bridge. Maybe a new Dodgers Stadium would've been built on the LIRR yards. The housing projects replacing neighborhoods would almost certainly happened pretty much as it did- maybe just some details would be different. In the case of housing, I think Moses was just interjecting himself into something that for better or worse, was going to happen anyway. As an example, I'll cite my Dad's home town of Glasgow, Scotland, which Post-WW2 also demolished much of itself in favor of substandard high-rise housing. |
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