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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Feb 18 16:55:01 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Edwards! on Sun Feb 18 16:36:02 2007. The "golden age of transit building" was around 1880-1920's. The "golden age of road building" across the country was the 1930's-1950's or 60's.San Fransico was building BART. In the late 1960's, after the "golden age of road building" was coming to an end. I am talking about the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. By the 60's attitudes changed. Washington was building METRORAIL... The 1970's....long after the "golden age of road building". Metrorail opened in the 70's....long after Robert Moses left. NY had begun it's own projects planned by the late 60's too, and into the 70's, except the fiscal crisis killed that in the 70's. Baltimore was building MTA METRORAIL... Yeah, Baltimore tried to do that in the 60's too, just like New York, and that didn't open until 1983. They had trouble getting funding in the 60's and 70's too. Hmmmm, sounds a lot like NY...they tried to get it done in the 60's too, but it too until the late 80's to get it done (or a fraction, the Archer project). Boston was building its RED LINE EXTENTIONS..and rerouting it ORANGE LINE. I don't know too much about Boston's subway system, but know there was an extension that opened in 1975, and then again in the late 80's. I think a failed highway project also opened up a ROW (I don't know the story, but all the land was cleare, buildings torn down, etc, and then they moved the I-95 ROW somewhere else, and instead that already cleared ROW, instead of letting it go to waste was given to the subway. I am a little unclear on it. But all that being said, I am talking about 1930's (for projects not planned in the 20's), 40's and 50's saw a LARGE focus on roads, and not transit. By the 60's, cities came back to transit (including NY), and had some great plans, but by the 70's, most cities had trouble realizing those plans. |
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