@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it"During this decade, 439 miles of new highways were built, and not one mile of new railroad or subway. In 1974, people using subways and railroads in and around New York were still riding on tracks laid between 1904 and 1933 - the last year before #RobertMoses came to power in the city. Not a single mile had been built since."
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it"To ease access to Flushing-Meadows Park - [#RobertMoses] had determined that The [World's] Fair was going to be held in that park - a vast network of new Queens highways, $120 million dollars worth of new highways, would be needed."
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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it"Build railroads at the same time that you were building roads, and solving the metropolitan transportation problem would be greatly simplified. Pour all available funds into roads without building railroads, and that problem would never be solved. Public exposure to this point of view was limited. Editorials such as the one in the herald-tribune that so aroused #RobertMoses ire wer…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itLol. "Moreover, the colossal true cost of the Cross-Bronx [Expressway] could no longer be concealed. Before it was finished, the highway, including its interchanges with other highways and the bridge carrying it over the Harlem [River], would be the most expensive road constructed in all history - would cost not the $47mil that #RobertMoses had originally estimated, but $250mil.&quo…