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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Feb 16 00:37:34 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Feb 15 23:47:29 2007. It would take forever to get across Brooklyn even with an expressway, which would take no car traffic off the Belt Parkway and only result in creating another jammed-up truck route. Zero-sum game, as far as getting vehicles from A to B.Not true. Cars would be taken off from local streets paralleling the Cross Brooklyn as well as some from the Belt. Yes, there would be a lot of trucks using it but that is due to the lack of a freight tunnel across the Narrows and the one-way tolls on the Verrazano which encourages trucks to use it eastbound. I don't believe that. After all, there was a West Side Highway without him (and a railroad built that—ain't it funny how it's the only highway within NYC environs that got demolished and never replaced). The Belt Parkway would have been the Belt Expressway instead. The old Miller Highway (West Side Highway) and the Belt Parkway aren't comparable. Miller Highway was built as an elevated road above streets requiring little if any demolition. The fact that it wasn't rebuilt has nothing to do with Moses, other than he was losing or lost his power by the time Westway was conceived. The Belt Parkway required demolition of some homes that were in its path. Moses was able to get it done. An expressway would have required even more land and more demolition and would have caused more opposition if built in the late thirties. If built in the late forties or early fifties, even more demolition and displacement would have been required because Brooklyn was developing. Ditto for the late fifties. All but impossible in the sixties, after the formation of Community Planning Boards and communities becoming more vocal. |
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