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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Feb 11 11:27:46 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 11 00:57:07 2007. Auto travel in Brooklyn is slower than in any of the other boroughs (if you don't consider trying to get crosstown in Manhattan) because the Cross Brooklyn Expressway was not built. Without Moses, there probably would not have been a Belt Parkway and getting around by car would probably be totally impossible. Any trip out of Brooklyn would be increased by 30 to 45 minutes. You can't assume that mass transit would have been any better to fill in the gap. But what you can assume is that the southern portion of the borough would have been more sparsely populated. Canarsie and other neighborhoods would have been more rural like Staten Island was before the Bridge. I can remember when most of Canarsie was just vacant land. Without the Belt Parkway, the housing there never would have developed the way it did. |
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