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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:12:49 -0500, in misc.transport.urban-transit 
johndoe <johndoe@monmouth.com> wrote in
<lpbjbs8h3gc54k1m2dg8d0ppuaara1l6g1@4ax.com>:

>On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:27:24 -0800, Pulaski76
><jtate35NOjtSPAM@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Read Robert Caro's Power Broker for a good understanding of how
>>the American obsession with the automobile wrecked New York City
>>for nearly fifty years-- and made it a model for the destruction
>>of the urban lifestyle in most other US cities.  The trouble
>>with cars is that they isolate the passengeres from their
>>environment.  Fundamentally, they're a force for alienation and
>>self-absorption.  Moreover, the underclass tends to suffer the
>>most from the car problem.  Check out any neighborhood in
>>America that's had a freeway built through it for easy transit
>>by white suburban commuters and understand the definition
>>of "blight."
>
>caro's take on moses is a bunch of bile, people's usage of cars was
>inevitable and moses was a visionary who helped NY join modern America

Maybe, but he was arrogant and high-handed. He was totally indifferent
to other people's views, even sensible reasoned criticisms. He tried as
hard as possible to keep any of his work from public review--where he
often lost. Despite the fact that he was for a time the most powerful
state employee in New York, he couldn't get elected dogcatcher.