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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Feb 10 18:57:26 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Robert From Queens on Sat Feb 10 18:33:04 2007. You're right - In a way its good Moses built what he did, because today nothing can be built, and it isn't just from a $ point of view. The whole process is too complicated. I can't imagine two bridges being built within sight of each other, i.e. the Whitestone and Throgs Neck.And that's all I am trying to say. NYC and it's suburbs would have been able to become the city it is today without the roads and bridges that were built in that era. You also have to remember this is NOT unique to NY. Most cities were not building transit in that era, and only building roads and bridges. That was the era they were in, just as 50 or 100 years earlier, every city was building railroads and transit. Just look at a city like Los Angeles became a city in that era. It was not a real city when the subways were being built around the country. It really developed in the 1920's and later....so look what era that was....the 1930's to 1950's....RM's height era. So they didn't build subways either....they lined the city with freeways. This is what ALL the cities were doing. None of them for the most part were expanding transit. They were all ripping up their trolley systems. Robert Moses fought for the federal money that was needed for these projects. He was in competition with other cities doing the same thing around the counry. So DON'T think it's so simple to say that if he didn't take the money for the Whitestone bridge or the Cross Island Parkway that they would have used that money for let's say the 2nd Ave subway instead.... NO...that money would have went to let's say Cleveland instead for their road project...and NY wouldn't have either the Whitestone bridge....OR....the 2nd Ave subway. This money would have went somewhere, and RM brought it to NY. Other cities around the counrty were trying to get the same money. Again, people are using CURRENT thought about transit and roads, and trying to translate that into 1930's-1960's thought about transit and roads. |
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