Just one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiti...

potato3732842 · 2025-04-12T23:25:31 1744500331

>ust one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiting access to parks and beaches to those who owned cars… >https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo...

If you're gonna claim something don't cite an article that's all about debunking that thing.

dghlsakjg · 2025-04-14T03:13:18 1744600398

Read the article. It doesn’t debunk that assertion. It more or less confirms it.

rufus_foreman · 2025-04-12T21:22:22 1744492942

Here's the sub-heading from the article you linked to:

"The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway. The truth? It’s a little more complex"

dghlsakjg · 2025-04-12T22:09:44 1744495784

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rufus_foreman · 2025-04-12T22:14:58 1744496098

"to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway"

No evidence whatsoever for that motivation. You could take the bus to the beach.

dghlsakjg · 2025-04-14T03:12:35 1744600355

You are quoting yourself not the article or me?

No evidence besides the direct testimony of a person that worked on the project given to one of the best biographers in a piece of work that won a Pulitzer Prize. Also, the physical evidence of the bridges. Circumstantially, the man was openly racist, and openly used design to segregate.

The assertion isn’t that you couldn’t take a bus to the beach. The assertion is that you couldn’t take a bus from the inner city neighborhoods to Jones Beach, which was true.