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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 24 19:18:25 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jul 24 16:33:38 2007. Moses shouldn't be used as a scapegoat for just about everything, but you can't deny his overwhelming influence and how he ruled using fear which resulted in good and bad.Agreed. However, many anit-Moses people do use him as a scapegoat for EVERYTHING that went wrong in 50's and 60's in NY, and that is ridiculous. But he did divert money from mass transit Incorrect. The money he got to NY was Federal money for the roads, parks, bridges, etc. If HE didn't bring that money TO NY for those prokects, it's not like it would have went to transit in NY instead. No, it would have went to some other city for THEIR road or bridge project instead. Everything else that he did not control suffered during his years. Then there should have been someone put to run transit expansion, and seek funding. That's where the problem was. There was no one incharge of bring money to NY for transit, but then again, remember the era, transit was looked at as "old fashioned" back then. Again, trying to bring today's knowledge and ideals into an a different era. I know you disagree, but not allowing mass transit in the medians of the Van Wyck or LIE when they would have been cost effective then, that is the same as diverting money from mass transit. Okay, I can agree with that. However, there was a WORKING line right next to the airport anyway (LIRR ROckaway line), and that was not used either for airport link. A WORKING line, right at their doorstep, and through neighborhoods that could use subway, yet that line was just let to rot. No one was even using existing lines for transit, much less building brand new ones. Yes he brought in a lot of federal money, but if his policies were more balanced and he was not such an egomaniac, he could have accomplished more good with less of the bad that is associated with him. I can agree with that too. I already said he was a pompous arrogant man. However, remember the era he was in. The majority of people around the country looked at not only transit as "old fashioned", but also looked at cities as "old fashioned". The suburbs were the wave of the future back then. THAT ideal of THAT era is what caused the problem. Robert Moses was just a product of that thiniking in that era. |
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