https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/07/how-low-did-he-go/533019/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/07/how-low-did-h... "This summer, as New Y

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/07/how-low-did-he-go/533019/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/07/how-low-did-h... "This summer, as New Yorkers head out to Long Island’s beach towns and parks on the Southern State Parkway, they’ll pass beneath a series of overpass bridges made infamous in Robert A. Caro’s monumental 1974 biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker. In one of the book's most memorable passages, Caro reveals that Moses ordered his engineers to build the bridges low over the parkway to keep buses from the city away from Jones Beach—buses presumably filled with the poor blacks and Puerto Ricans Moses despised. The story was told to Caro by Sidney M. Shapiro, a close Moses associate and former chief engineer and general manager of the Long Island State Park Commission." This article says that the story is not necessarily that straightforward, but this does speak directly to your comment.