Re: America's Most Influential Man to Help National Bicycle Greenway



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Jeremy Parker

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> If you listen to the Robert Moses podcast at Bikescape, the San
> Francisco based on line radio show, you will hear the subject of

the
> expose described as a man who had "more to do with how you live now

than
> any man in history". You see, it was Robert Moses who back in the

50's
> and 60's displaced 3/4 of a million New Yorkers and destroyed

countless
> historic buildings with freeways and the infrastructure that

supports
> them.


and who in the 1930s, and up until WW II, built many miles of bike
path in New York City. Go back to those old microfilmed reels of the
New York Times, and every spring you will see an article about how
many miles had been built, and were planned.

He gave the world's oldest bike facility, alongside Ocean Parkway, in
Brooklyn, built in 1895, and still there, one of its renovations.

Jeremy Parker
 

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