Re: Is it true that the Feds mandate "free" rest areas?

On Mar 29, 9:26 pm, "rshe...@xxxxxxxxx" <rshe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have been thru this oh, so many times.

RM was an absolute genius, and a maker of his times in terms of
transportation.

But you have to remember the context of his times.

Cities like NY wanted express hwys, there was no opposition like
sprang up later.

Same with eminent domain, you got a letter advising you that the state
was taking your property.  You had a choice of accepting it, or going
to court.  BTW, you have 30 days to get out.

There were no environmental laws, and costs were cheap, labor was
cheap and plentiful.

yup....the times were different... and simpler but I think there was
opposition... rolled over in the early going and then later it
solidified...

" His career is summed up by his sayings "cities are for traffic" and
"if the ends don't justify the means, what does?"

"His critics claim that he displaced hundreds of thousands of
residents in New York City, uprooted traditional neighborhoods by
building expressways through them, contributed to the ruin of the
South Bronx and the amusement parks of Coney Island, caused the
departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants Major League
baseball teams, and precipitated the decline of public transport
through disinvestment and neglect."

"Moses's reputation began to wane in the 1960s as public debate on
urban planning began to focus on the virtues of intimate neighborhoods
and smallness of scale. Around this time, Moses also started picking
political battles he could not win. His campaign against the free
Shakespeare in the Park received much negative publicity, and his
effort to destroy a shaded playground in Central Park to make way for
a parking lot for the expensive Tavern-on-the-Green restaurant made
him many enemies among the middle-class voters of the Upper West
Side."

safe to say ...not everyone agreed with your view...of him.. right?
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