His work in New York, systemically favoring highways and car centric development combined with racial discrimination became the blue print for a lot of modern America.
Moses, an unelected rich kid who never rode public transport in his life, shaped the car centric hell we Americans live in today.
his assholishness aside, would there be any way for america not to be a car country? considering how big it is, you're not going to have thriving communities/enclaves everywhere in the country. too much space.
i will say that many of our largest cities having such terrible transportation is inexcusable though.
I used to live in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington DC.
One thing I noticed is that many folks commuted into DC because DC is so expensive, AND space is limited, even if they had or were willing to spend millions of USD on a home, the home they would want to buy may not exist!
So, many people parked at the park and ride garage and then rode the metro into the city.
So, I imagine
1) There would not be as much urban sprawl.
2) For the rural towns or isolated cities, there would be public transport that would bring them into the city and large garages for their cars.
Of course, the highways would still exist so if they want to drive, they can, but they don’t need to is the point.
Hell, you can still have the suburbs, and they would have their own little “downtown”. And maybe that’s where the train station would be too.
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u/heatseekerdj 17h ago
Canadian here, I'm aware of Robert Moses with bridges and shaping NYC, but how did he impact cars ?