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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Feb 13 10:33:39 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by ntrainride on Tue Feb 13 10:23:38 2007. By the end ofLa Guardia’s first administration the New Deal had funneled more than $1 billion into NYC RIght, money that wouldn't have come to NY at all if not for them. It's quite unfortunate that more transit wasn't built (but cityh was spending on transit back then), but it's not like if there wasn't a Moses taking money for the roads that all this money would have come to NY for transit. That's simply not true. The issue when it comes to Moses and transit is NOT that Moses didn't get money for transit, and instead for roads. The issue is that there wasn't a similar man pushing to get transit stuff done and money for that. But again, THAT WAS the era. People were more interested in roads and bridges than transit. They needed roads and bridges back then, once private cars were invented, and became commonplace, their effect on the landscape was ineveidable. And that's not just NY, that's EVERYWHERE. |
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