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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sat Feb 10 21:53:40 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Feb 10 18:45:33 2007. And just look at the stupidity that is going on today. The Belt Parkway was built in 1940. A third lane was added not too long later, Now it is almost 60 years later and automobile usage has grown significantly. The Mill Basin Bridge on the Belt Parkway is about to be rebuilt in a few short years. If Moses were still around and in power, no doubt it would be rebuilt to accommodate four or five lanes of traffic either now or in the future. But the powers that be are going to rebuild it with only three lanes, effectively insuring that the Belt Parkway will never carry more than three lanes of traffic in a section that doesn't even have service roads. Does that make any sense to build a highway in 2010 according to 1940 traffic needs? Furthermore the NYMBYists are ensuring that no bypass routes will be built such as connecting Avenue U to Seaview Avenue with a bridge, forcing overflow traffic to continue to endure a 30 minute bypass via overcrowded Flatlands Avenue.Yes, you can say a lot of bad things about Robert Moses, but look what happens when someone like him is not around. It would have been nice if he wasn't so mean and not so anti-transit, but everything isn't and never will be the way we want them to be. |
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