by goodnightjohnwayne
lirr42 wrote: One thing it does reiterate is that Moses hated the idea of public transportation.By the era of Robert Moses, most of New York City's current transit infrastructure was largely complete, and had been completed by the private sector. The general public hated elevated lines, grade level freight lines and even street car lines. Roads were very obviously needed, and Robert Moses served the existing needs of his era, using the political levers of power that were available in that era. If Robert Moses had been a contemporary or Robert Fulton, he'd have been in the steamboat business, or if he'd been a contemporary of Vanderbilt, he'd have been railroad magnate, or a few decades later, a traction magnate. In the middle of the 20th century, the private sector was in decline, government was growing and the automobile represented the future of transportation - circumstances which explain the rise of figure like Moses. Robert Moses was product of his time, but by the standards of any era, he got a lot done.