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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 24 11:23:37 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 09:44:49 2007. 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 stop it.....the Southern and Northern State were designed in the 1920's....buses weren't even around back then. Streetcars reighned supreme, autos were just beginning to get off the ground, and it was impossible to see the foothold of what buses would become in the 1920's when the first parkways were being built. By the time it was seen what buses would become, Robert Moses began building EXPRESSWAYS. And for the record, there are no obstructions or low overpasses to stop the bringing buses to you "his socalled precious Jones Beach". It is also a known fact the Moses had to bow the pressure of politically connected "fat-cats" living in Old Westbury/Brookville from buidling straight into their backyards. That is why you now see the Northern State takes a BIG-ASS turn around Old Westbury instead of continuing to parallel the LIE. Yes.....but RObert Moses some years later won in the end, and got the LIE STRAIGHT through where the Northern State should have gone..... |
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