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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 9 14:16:58 2007 So, RM's tenure lasted almost a half a century. 45 years is a long time, so of course public attitudes changed in that time. At the beginning of his tenure, people applauded his bulldozer tactics, at the end, they were lamented.During those years he accomplished an huge amount of projects. Some of them were good, some truly outstanding, and some pretty bad. Regardless of whether we like him or not, a lot can be learned about getting public projects done....both good ways and bad ways from Robert Moses. Robert Moses was a guy of his time. The public interest was away from transit, and towards roads at the time. That was his era, and that's what the public wanted, at least near the beginning of his reign. Of course today, public interest is more transit oriented. Now suppose we had a new RM-type guy, except this time he was a transit oriented guy. What are some of the specific projects that you think would get done. Now remember, he can use RM tactics to get them done. And as a sidenote to that, would we be as critical of this guy as some of us are about RM is if it was trasit projects getting done? Remember 50 years from now, there may be a new attitude. So any ideas? |
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