Word: expressways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROBERT MOSES was never very well known to people who lived outside of New York City, and as time passes fewer and fewer New Yorkers will remember the man who, more than anyone else, built the city around them. Moses was responsible for building every major parkway, highway and expressway in New York City with the single exception of the East River Drive; he built every one of the city's bridges constructed since 1909; he built, in addition to more than a quarter of a million anonymous public housing units, Lincoln Center, the U.N. headquarters, and Shea Stadium...
...this cannot obscure the fact that New York State enjoys some 45 per cent of the total acreage of state parks in all 50 states--because, in part, Moses was powermad. Now that Moses is gone, and we don't have to worry about him running an expressway through our living-rooms, we can safely acknowledge that some of his projects are of a magnitude of imagination and execution that requires extraordinary quantities of visionary imagination as well as raw power...
Alan Altshuler, 33, a farsighted urban planner, became Massachusetts' secretary of transportation and construction in 1971, after leading the effort to persuade Republican Governor Francis Sargent to halt all new expressway construction in the Boston area until a plan balancing environmental and social consequences, mass transit, and automobile use could be fully worked out. A Cornell graduate and former M.I.T. political scientist, Altshuler lobbied for three years for the transfer of interstate highway funds to urban areas for mass transit; last May the Bay State was granted the first such transfer -$670 million
...possibility is computer-controlled, driverless buses running along expressway lanes reserved exclusively for them. Another is "dial-a-bus" systems. These would employ small vehicles that would run frequently along fixed routes but have no set stopping points; a passenger would simply dial a central office and the next bus would stop at his corner to pick him up. Of course, the best answer to urban transportation problems will be a mix of buses and rail-based systems...
FASANELLA'S CITY text by Patrick Watson. 148 pages. Knopf. $15. Ralph Fasanella's city is New York. As a young man he was a cio organizer among electrical workers; now he pumps gas at his brother-in-law's station under the Cross Bronx Expressway. And he paints-vast crowded canvases filled with 40-year-old billboards, saloons, cigar stores, subway entrances. It is easy to label him an urban Grandma Moses, but Fasanella's paintings are crammed with emotions that range from sentimentality to outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities...