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Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Mon Jan 5 00:35:26 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 4 23:46:27 2009. Um, no. The interstate highway system came in the 1950s, long after Moses started doing his thing. Plus, New York was alone in having a truly world class subway system, so to deny it any funding for expansion at all was not typical of most other cities because they had nothing comparable.Los Angeles did follow and expand on Moses' model in the 1950s, when city and state government stood by and allowed GM to destroy the trolley system and limit public transportation to buses. |
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