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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 13 12:13:19 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Feb 13 00:17:54 2007. "Yes, and if one notices today, they can (and do) run those smaller school buses on the Parkways"But I believe that many of the extremely low overpasses Moses designed (in some places but not everywhere) have been rebuilt in time so that they are no longer so low. It is possible that the small buses you refer to could not have fitted on the parkways in the 1930s. But I believe what you say about Moses not being a psychic. When I grew up in East Flatbush in the 1950s, in a neighborhood built in the 1920s, I could never understand why all the cars parked in the driveways always stuck way into the sidewalks and you almost had to walk in the street to go around them, until my father explained to me what the problem was. In the late 1950s when the cars had their fins, they were much longer than the cars of today. My father explained to me that the driveways were designed for Model Ts and that no one envisioned that someday the cars would become longer. (With the number of smaller foreign cars today, I would imagine that it is less of a problem today), but it was a real inconvenience back then, and luckily they weren't giving out tickets then for blocking the sidewalk. So I guess in the fifties you could have looked at those houses and concluded that the builders were pro-car and anti-pedestrian if you wanted to. |
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