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Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by Russ on Sun Jan 4 12:43:12 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 4 08:47:24 2009. A total fallacy.In the context of the post in which you responded, almost. Looking at the broad view, Robert moses did receive a disproportionate amount of public outlays starting in the 1930s. This was not part of a national trend. Robert Moses led the trend. By the end of the 1930s Mayor LaGuardia was expressing regret about giving Moses so much leeway. Highways and parks were getting funded, but schools and other traditional government capital projects were not. Also, Moses had been repeatedly asked to included provisions in his transportation projects for rail. Even if it was not to be implemented at that time, allow it to be added later. Moses always refused, even though the cost would have been minimal at the time that these projects were executed. Moses does not deserve a free pass on these decisions. He had a perfect vision for 1922, but he refused to allow that vision to be modified to the world in which he was wielding power. |
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