|
|
| Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? (729669) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
|
|
Posted by Michael549 on Sun Jan 4 16:44:07 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. From a previous message: "That was a trend all over the country to be spending on highways and bridges instead of transit."While I agree with all that has been said about Robert Moses in this message stream, I want to add a few other points. The highways and bridge projects should not just be seen in isolation, there were real estate, home building, construction and other interests involved in the push for such projects -- which added to the chorus. Public transit in many cities was often a private operation going to where many people lived, while many people wanted a different kind of lifestyle. The American Dream as many understood it to be was not a walk-up tenement apartment with a dilapidated noisy el-train running outside one's window. My point is that the money that was provided for the building of highways, bridges and other projects was not always some kind of conspiracy plotted and planted by those evil people. That is not to say that in light of 40-60 years of hind-sight that several aspects what was done in the past should-could-would have been different. Mike |
|
|
|