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Posted by JerzDevl2000 on Sun Feb 18 15:21:12 2007, in response to A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 9 14:16:58 2007. This is a great thread - not only because of the responses on here, but the fact that I'm utterly obsessed with Robert Moses. He died 5 years after I was born, so I didn't know about him until I read "The Power Broker" in 1999. It was so good, so enthralling, and monumental on many levels, that I read it again a few years later, and I'd get to Caro's trilogy on LBJ if and when I ever got around to it... As I said, there's a ton of responses on here, and I read through a lot of them. Many deal with whether the city would have been better off had the highways not been built, and if the subways would have gotten some of the money used to contruct the "ribbons of asphalt". Caro's book almost makes it impossible to answer the question, only because he's out to get Moses and it's slanted as being against him, IMHO. Personally, I'd like to see the exhibits that are out on Moses before fully formulationg my own opinion, on whether he was good for the city and what someone today could learn, in terms of getting mass transit on the forefront, much like highways were 50 years ago. City development should have been curtailed on the east side and other transit-deficient areas until subway access could be provided, which is one thing that the West Side of Manhattan could certainly follow. No upzoning until the 7 is already U/C. The third water tunnel has been a work in progress for years and greenways are going in on the waterfront but mass transit seems to take a backseat every time! There's so much more I could say about this, and I wish that this board had a format like some of the message boards that I post on, since old threads and posts can get pushed down pretty quickly. Nevertheless, I'm glad for the discussion on this here. A new generation of New Yorkers needs to know who Robert Moses and his legacy was. |
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