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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Feb 10 23:39:00 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by BrooklynBus on Sat Feb 10 21:53:40 2007. 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.Yeah, and at least in other areas, like Los Angeles, they do rebuild their freeways to handle the 4 and 5 lanes in each direction. A three lane road is a small road out there,a and one that hasn't been upgraded. 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. Yup, and again, it was the 1930's-1950's mindset of the whole country to build roads and not transit. Moses broaught the money TO NY. This federal money was in competition with other cities around the country for THEIR road projects too. As I said before, it's not like if Moses didn't get money for let's say the Whitestone Bridge and the Cross Island Parkway it would have been instead available for let's say the Second AVe Subway....no, if Moses didn't bring that money to NY for the Bridge, it would have instead went to another city for THEIR road project. Moses GOT the money into NY. |
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