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Jeremy Parker
Guest
"Cycle America" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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
news:[email protected]...
> 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