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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Jul 23 14:55:25 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by WillD on Mon Jul 23 14:36:22 2007. He suggested Moses leave a 50 foot right of way in the median of the Van Wyck for an eventual subway expansion to the airport.And there is a rail line right in the center of the Expressway today, so what's the problem? And where was the money coming from AT THAT TIME to build this line? Instead of this logical balanced approach Moses continued as he had since 1933, funding none of the rail projects and all of the road projects, And name all the other cities that were expanding, and upkeeping their systems running like a swiss watch in that era. The NYC subway STILL hasn't fully recovered from the neglect of the 1950s. The NYC subway STILL hasn't fully recovered from the neglect of the 1950s And yes, Moses is responsible for that neglect, it was he who proposed raising the fare slightly so as to make the subway "self supporting" debt, No, the bankrupt IRT and BMT was responsible for that, and the failure for them to be able to raise the 5 cents fare for decades before to allow them to remain viable. The city inherited the BMT and IRT, that was left to deteriorate since the 1930's while they were still privately owned. In essence at the time he stole from the poor to give to the rich, neglecting the city's essential functions, including fire prevention, the police force, the schools, healthcare, and everything other than the parks and roads which were his domain to advance his own power. He wasn't just hostile to transit, he was hostile to anything he didn't control, but to claim he was anything else is completely and utterly false Yes, that's one opinion on one side of this. Now don't get me wrong, a lot of what he did, or I should say how he did it left much to be desired, but there was a lot of good and improvement also under his reign. The highway, bridge system being one, but also the many, many parks. There's good and bad in the story, and I will not listen to just one side of the story as being the full picture, and being the absolute truth in the whole saga. There were many contributing factors involved also in the fall of NY and the breakdown in the 70's. |
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