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It’s all by design. Car dependent suburbs with no transit access make it easier to keep “undesirables” out of your neck of the woods. Robert Moses infamously m

It’s all by design. Car dependent suburbs with no transit access make it easier to keep “undesirables” out of your neck of the woods. Robert Moses infamously made great use of infrastructure and urban planning to reinforce redlining.

alistairSH 1y ago
Just one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiting access to parks and beaches to those who owned cars… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo...
- rufus_foreman 1y ago
  Here's the sub-heading from the article you linked to: "The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway. The truth? It’s a little more complex"
  - dghlsakjg 1y ago
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    - rufus_foreman 1y ago
      "to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway" No evidence whatsoever for that motivation. You could take the bus to the beach.
      - dghlsakjg 1y ago
        You are quoting yourself not the article or me? No evidence besides the direct testimony of a person that worked on the project given to one of the best biographers in a piece of work that won a Pulitzer Prize. Also, the physical evidence of the bridges. Circumstantially, the man was openly racist, and openly used design to segregate. The assertion isn’t that you couldn’t take a bus to the beach. The assertion is that you couldn’t take a bus from the inner city neighborhoods to Jones Beach, which was true.
    - potato3732842 1y ago
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- potato3732842 1y ago
  >ust one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiting access to parks and beaches to those who owned cars… >https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo... If you're gonna claim something don't cite an article that's all about debunking that thing.
  - dghlsakjg 1y ago
    Read the article. It doesn’t debunk that assertion. It more or less confirms it.

alistairSH 1y ago

Just one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiting access to parks and beaches to those who owned cars… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo...

rufus_foreman 1y ago
Here's the sub-heading from the article you linked to: "The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway. The truth? It’s a little more complex"
- dghlsakjg 1y ago
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  - rufus_foreman 1y ago
    "to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway" No evidence whatsoever for that motivation. You could take the bus to the beach.
    - dghlsakjg 1y ago
      You are quoting yourself not the article or me? No evidence besides the direct testimony of a person that worked on the project given to one of the best biographers in a piece of work that won a Pulitzer Prize. Also, the physical evidence of the bridges. Circumstantially, the man was openly racist, and openly used design to segregate. The assertion isn’t that you couldn’t take a bus to the beach. The assertion is that you couldn’t take a bus from the inner city neighborhoods to Jones Beach, which was true.
  - potato3732842 1y ago
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potato3732842 1y ago
>ust one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiting access to parks and beaches to those who owned cars… >https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo... If you're gonna claim something don't cite an article that's all about debunking that thing.
- dghlsakjg 1y ago
  Read the article. It doesn’t debunk that assertion. It more or less confirms it.