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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Feb 11 15:50:41 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Westinghouse XCB248S on Sun Feb 11 13:18:01 2007. I spent the first 25 years of my life in East Flatbush and was a frequent user of the B46 until 1977.First of all what makes you think you are entitled to a seat on a bus in the rush hour? Be glad you can even get on the bus. In the 1960s and 70s, sometimes you had to miss two or three buses until one even stopped for you to board. Then you could barely squeeze in and sometimes rode the entire trip on the front stairs. Second, you can't blame Moses if there is not enough service in your opinion. He's been dead for a number of years. But you can blame NYCT who cut rush hour service in the mid 1970s from 2 minute headways to 4 minute headways when the buses were as crowded as I described. The following Monday, the street was flooded with private cars offering lifts to the subway for the same as the bus fare. In a few days, the gypsy car industry saw what was going on and they replaced the private cars. About ten years later, the gypsy cabs were replaced by the "dollar vans" and a whole new industry was born. You also can't blame Moses for the lack of a Utica Avenue subway which was planned even before 1922 when the Eastern Parkway was built. It wasn't built before Moses gained enough power to steer funds away, and it wasn't built after he lost power. There is only a slight possibility that it would have been built if he never lived. |
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