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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 9 16:23:39 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by PATHman on Fri Feb 9 14:53:21 2007. This wasn't the point of the thread, however, he was man of his time too, especially at the beginning. People WANTED many of the bridges and roads to be built, again, especially at the beginning. The Bronx was burning even before the Cross Bronx went through (although, no it didn't need even more misery, I mean look at Bushwick, and many parts of Brooklyn, those areas fell just like the Bronx, without any help from the unbuilt Bushwick Expressway. And no, it's not just him that didn't encourage mass transit on SI, it was a complete wilderness, many decades from development, so there was no reason to build transit there, at the time the areas that needed it got it. SI wasn't involved in the transit uprise that the other boroughs got because it was just a baren wilderness. Queens and Bronx were too, but at least people could see that development was coming quickly, unlike completely unaccessible SI.And no, half the city is not inaccessible because of him, again, IT WAS A different time. People looked at transit at as old fashioned back then. People wanted cars, and they wanted the roads that cars needed. it's easy to sit here and criticize an former era's thinking, but THAT was the thought back then. Today people have different attutudes toward transit than they had in the 40's and 50's. |
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