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Robert Moses Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 6 09:44:19 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by VictorM on Tue Jan 6 09:01:35 2009. And again, it's not that I think Moses did everything right. Far from it. But he's been used as a scapegoat for everything. There are WAY more factors involved, and again, one of the biggest is that most of the rail transportation systems were still privately owned in the beginning of his era. They only began to be publically owned near the end of his tenure in many cases.People can't take today's conditions, and attitudes, and try and place them in a different era when conditions and attitudes were different. Robert Moses didn't create the car dependancy we have, the people who invented cars did (and thank god they did), and once they were affordable, there was no stopping it. |
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