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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jul 24 22:54:03 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 24 19:18:25 2007. Everything else that he did not control suffered during his years. (Comment also referred to hospitals and schools.)Then there should have been someone put to run transit expansion... In theory yes, but practically no. When you have someone as powerful as Moses who would ruin your career if you dared to stand up to him you couldn't advocate for transit, or hospitals or schools or anything else. Look what he did to his own brother, a competent engineer just like Moses, but Moses made sure he wouldn't be able to get a job in the NY area because he didn't want the competition, and his brother had too much pride to move to another part of the country where he could have accomplished as much as his brother, according to Caro's conjecture. (No one even knew that he had a brother when he was alive.) The only reason that Jane Jacobs could stand up to him is that she didn't have a career to lose. She was just a housewife with alot of nerve who decided to put her thoughts in writing winning the respect of urban planners across the country although she wasn't even one of them. Your point about the Rockaway Line is well-taken. Yes, it could have been used and should have been, and still should be, but there was no one to advocate for it. But if Moses believed in transit, he could have, and it would have been done. It also does not absolve him from prohibiting transit along highway medians. |
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