The Power Broker - Robert Moses

Guno צְבִי said:
Yep, 7 daily news papers some with both morning and afternoon additions, in the 50's mail delivered twice daily and we had 7 TV stations

Free community centers for after school staffed by teachers with arts and crafts like pottery and pool tables .
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Let me ask you this, Caro talked a lot about the major traffic issues in the city.

Moses would build a new bridge or freeway and traffic would basically only get worse. And they just said it was a miserable part of the experience of living there or in Long Island.

And planners saw there was going to be a need for buses rail and subway but Moses kept on just building freeways.

Do you recall traffic being horrible?
 
cawacko said:
Let me ask you this, Caro talked a lot about the major traffic issues in the city.

Moses would build a new bridge or freeway and traffic would basically only get worse. And they just said it was a miserable part of the experience of living there or in Long Island.

And planners saw there was going to be a need for buses rail and subway but Moses kept on just building freeways.

Do you recall traffic being horrible?
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Not so much on long island up until the late 70's , city driving was nuts, but you had busses and subways, in the late 70' early 80's it took me an 1 1/2 to get home 30 miles with the weekend traffic on LI, people who worked in the city took the LIRR everyday
 
Guno צְבִי said:
Not so much on long island up until the late 70's , city driving was nuts, but you had busses and subways, in the late 70' early 80's it took me an 1 1/2 to get home 30 miles with the weekend traffic on LI, people who worked in the city took the LIRR everyday
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The way Caro described it, at least in the '50's, the LIRR was miserable to ride because the lack of funds prevented them from doing upkeep of the seats etc. People rode it because they had to, but it didn't come across as a pleasant experience.

Was it better in the '70's?
 
cawacko said:
The way Caro described it, at least in the '50's, the LIRR was miserable to ride because the lack of funds prevented them from doing upkeep of the seats etc. People rode it because they had to, but it didn't come across as a pleasant experience.

Was it better in the '70's?
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Yes in rockaway where i grew up the City bought the LIRR rockaway line and ran the subway elevated line, The LIRR by the 70's, with the infusion of cash and being spun off from the pennsylvania RR and combined with the newly formed MTA became a first class RR
 
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