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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Feb 11 18:55:47 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Feb 11 18:45:29 2007. You don't believe that the overpasses on the parkways were purposely designed too low to accommodate buses in all the lanes?Correct. It's an unfortunate by-product of the way the parkways were built, but it's not the "reason". Besides he didn't allow commercial traffic on his parkways anyway so buses were precluded. That is correct. And it's nice to have roads that trucks can't drive on (not that trucks as we know it existed either back then). Didn't the bus service that exists today today begin long after when the parkways were built? Yes, that was excactly my point, and what the "hearsayers" forget to include....that buses really didn't have a foothold in the 1930's yet, when the parkways were being built. They weren't a concern or thought then yet. Again, people using modern thought and technology, and trying to frame it into the 1930's. And once trucks and buses became much more of a thought and much more prevelant....the expressways were built. Some of the parkways were even converted to expressways!! Once it was seen that you needed higher clearances for the then much more prevelant buses and trucks, expressways were built instead of parkways. It may be ludicrous to believe that only blacks use public transportation, but Moses believed that they are far more likely to use buses than whites That's a ridiculous assumption. Even in the 1930's-1950's...and probably especially in the the 1930's to 1950's. |
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