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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Feb 13 13:28:56 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 13 12:13:19 2007. 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.That's doubtful, since raising the overpasses would require lengthening the approaches on the cross streets, a massive undertaking. 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... Similarly, my parents' '78 Volare station wagon didn't fit in the garage of our 1890s duplex in Providence - and that was supposed to be a midsize car! |
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