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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Feb 13 11:32:08 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 13 11:09:01 2007. If such an RM guy would have existed, it is doubtful that he would have been able to accomplish anything as long as Moses was in power.Probably true, but NO other city was expanding transit at the time either. THAT was the mentality back then, focused only on roads, and none on transit....almost everywhere in the country. The funding pot in Washington was limited. Ahhh, and here comes my point out...Moses brought a hell of a lot of that LIMITED funding pot TO NY, instead of it going to some other city for "their" road and bridge project. The choice wasn't "that money will come to NY anyway, and would have been for transit". No, that is not the case. Moses and the fictitional RM would have been competing for the same funds. Moses would have found a way to assure that he gets the funds he needs for roads and your RM guy gets bubkis (peanuts, if thats a good translation) for transit. Ah, my point again....There WAS NO transit guy ANYWHERE.....but Moses DID get the money away from OTHER cities up for the same money, that may have not had a figure that was as powerful as moses. It's choice A or B. To NY or not to NY, there is no C for transit, as NO ONE was expanding transit in that era. They were ALL expanding roads and bridges. If Moses didn't shoot himself in the foot by making a few stupid maneuvers in the early sixties No, by that time, the era of Moses' thinking was over. Moses did this in an era when people thought in the same thinking, "Expand ROads". By the 60's, the "golden age" of road expansion was over, just as the "golden age" of transit expansion was over a half a century earlier. |
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