Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "How highways wrecked American cities" video.

  1. The process of gutting cities with massively intrusive highways actually commenced BEFORE the Second World War with Robert Moses' arguably successful parkway system on Long Island and his completion of the twice-failed Triborough Bridge and its approaches. He did, however, start constructing the Cross-Bronx Expressway in 1945, thereby showing politicians throughout the nation that one could successfully force an unwanted freeway down the throats of the citizenry, gut functional neighborhoods, displace nearly a half-million residents, create unprecedented housing shortages, and enhance one's own political power while facing virtually no repercussions. The model he created is still working against our best interests to this day. Given the number of urban highway planning projects that retained his "expertise," it is literally impossible to overstate the role Moses played in imposing this horrific paradigm upon our country... yet you didn't even mention him once!
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