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What exactly was multimodal about Robert Moses? He refused to expand ROW for projects out to Kennedy and on the Long Island Expressway to include future transit. He purposely raised the rates on the precursor of the MTA multiple times to try to price out poor people and reduce ridership (and go towards his roads) while simultaneously not raising rates on his bridges. And he built his roads so buses, aka poor people, couldn't use them.

He got things done by ignoring all public input and steam rolling neighborhoods that were too poor to fight back with injunctions by starting projects before they new they even existed.

The guy did some good things but I think his context in history is in proper prospective.

by jj on Jun 27, 2012 11:37 am • link • report

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