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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jun 14 16:04:21 2021, in response to Re: Anti-car democrats are a road hazard, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 14 13:35:04 2021. It’s a little too late for both because there has been too much development. I was always against the Midtown Manhattan Expressway until I saw one of the versions att a Moses exhibit about ten years ago.It was actually brilliant. Remember, when it was proposed, none of the buildings between 32 and 33 Street where I believe it was proposed was higher than six stories and none were architecturally significant. Moses proposed to tear everything down and replace the entire corridor with skyscrapers at least 20 stories high, but with the expressway on the second story. I believe the only exit westbound was at Second Avenue and maybe one at 11th. Similar story in the other direction. Any through vehicle from Queens to New Jersey would never enter a Manhattan Street and all those skyscrapers would have generated tons of tax revenue, more than enough to pay for the project. And once Moses was out of the picture, the taxes could have been diverted to mass transit. There would have been much reduced congestion. But now of course there are too many high rises in the way. A missed opportunity. A similar proposal for Lower Manhattan may have also worked, but was never proposed. I don’t think three lanes each way was enough to relieve any traffic congestion and I saw one version with five lanes each way deep tunneled under all the subways. Can’t even imagine how expensive that would have been or if it would have accomplished anything. |
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