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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Jul 23 11:23:40 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by MATHA531 on Mon Jul 23 00:39:16 2007. He finally met his match when for once in his life Robert Wagner stood up to him regarding the Cross Manhattan Expressway which would have cut across Greenwich Village which was the beginning of the end.By that point, times were beginning to change. Moses was a man of his time. Cities all around the country were expanding their road and bridge and highway networks, that was not unique to NY. Those same cities were also NOT expanding their mass transit system. Moses was a man of his time, and gave people what they wanted at the time. By the end of the reign, things had begun to change. We also have Moses to thank for the low overpasses on the Southern and Northern State Parkways put there deliberately to keep low income people from taking buses out to his precious beaches at Jones Beach (and do remember many of these people when this construction occurred were not necessarily people of color). Oh please, give it a rest. That's an urban legend, and buses were well do go to Jones Beach today. In the beginning, the roads were planned in the 20's and 30's, and buses hadn't taken hold yet. It was impossible to envision the 1950's and the impacts of buses and trucks when the roads were being designed in the 1920's. Complete urban legend. |
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