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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jan 4 06:06:31 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 4 04:02:54 2009. Actually, 1 is valid, not *quite* so number 2 ... I personally despised Robert Moses for what he did by splitting the Bronx in two and turning MY borough into a shithouse. :(But fact is, Henry Ford is to blame here ... autos were getting reasonable for most mensches before the war. AFTER the war, so many people couldn't buy shit because it just wasn't available (or restricted) that they threw all their earnings into banks and when the war ended, THEY BOUGHT CARS ... they had THAT much extra "saved cash" and the GI Bill worked out your cookie-cutter box in Levittown for ya. It was the sheer VOLUME of car purchases and DEMAND for highways that blew the crap out of the "public transit" reality ... people had CARS now and could go where they needed to go ... NOW. They didn't have to depend on schedules, or transfers or "one seat ride" anymore. And those who actually PAID ATTENTION to the trend are to be congratulated (in terms of TODAY'S burrocraps) for even NOTICING a change in trends. Compare to our CURRENT sausage-crafter mindset. :( But that's what happened - anyone worth a conversation is welcome, but let's call Moses for what he really was ... a burrocrap with lots of statistical analysis who saw that the world was changing, public transit was about to give way to personal transit and there wasn't shit for that available, if we're going to survive politically, we'd better have highways since trolleys are dead, and so's the SAE ... Might not have served us NOW, but did sure serve us at the time. That's what people get for "short term value" from politics, banking, you name it ... only the Chinese think LONG term, and that's why they're gonna CONTINUE to kick our asses. But that's for OI. :) |
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