I guess the urban planners at the time included people like Robert Moses. From his Wikipedia page: > His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped

I guess the urban planners at the time included people like Robert Moses. From his Wikipedia page: > His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses