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Posted by American Pig on Tue Feb 13 18:04:58 2007, in response to Re: Set Your VCR, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Feb 12 14:26:59 2007. Horace Harding Boulevard pre-dated the LIE so they would not have been on local streets but on a surface parkway that probably would have been widened to three lanes each way, had Moses not built the LIE.And how would this be any better? A widened road would still require the taking of property. Freeways are clearly better than surface arterials. First, traffic lights can only be synchronized in one direction, so that traffic traveling in the other direction would have to stop every few blocks. If you rig the lights to provide long greens and short reds for the arterial, cross streets and pedestrians get screwed. A freeway is much easier to cross than the surface arterial. A person crossing the LIE at grade is far more likely to be killed than someone crossing Queens Blvd, but no one has to cross the LIE at grade. Queens Blvd can only be crossed at major intersections just like a freeway, but you have to wait for a light to do it. The fact that a freeway divides a neighborhood is a myth, if anything, it unites it more than a surface arterial would, as a surface arterial is more difficult to cross. So given that some kind of high capacity automobile corridor is necessary, a controlled access highway beats a surface arterial hands down. Moses never intended for any of his Parkways or Expressways to dead end. I believe he wanted to have the Prospect Expressway go all the way to the Belt Parkway by tearing up Ocean Parkway. The only extension of the Prospect that Moses proposed was an extension to the Cross Brooklyn Expressway at Avenue I, had that been built. |
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