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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 13 12:22:47 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Feb 13 11:32:08 2007. We are in agreement until the last point.Me: "If Moses didn't shoot himself in the foot by making a few stupid maneuvers in the early sixties" You: "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." Moses did hurt himself by threatening to resign from a number of his jobs and then followed through, which greatly eroded his power. Add this to the fact that Rockefeller didn't like him and the decline began. Yes the thinking about transit was changing and you had the Jane Jacobs factor, but to a large degree, Moses did himself in. He definitely would have been around many years longer if he didn't harm himself. |
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