I wanna talk a sec about public transit and Elon Musk in a serious sort of way not sarcastically.
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He refused, for instance, to build subway connectors along the Verrazano to Staten Island.http://ny.curbed.com/2014/5/22/10096344/the-planned-subway-lines-that-never-got-built-151-and-why …
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These things seemed obvious, even at the time. His motivation for not building them was more sinister: poor people used public transit.
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In Long Island, he built low-clearance bridges over the Parkways leading to Jones Beach State Park, almost 200 in total.
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This effectively denied bus access to the destination, blocking out Black folks from Harlem.
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He could have run the Cross Bronx through East Tremont along Crotana Park, but chose instead to run it through a Jewish neighborhood.
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1500+ people were displaced and lost their homes because of this.
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He built playgrounds in rich neighborhoods, but only one in Harlem. The ironwork on the fence was adorned with monkeyspic.twitter.com/txIC7ksvcE
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Robert Moses weaponized Civil Engineering and Urban Planning to suppress marginalized communities. Engineering is always political.
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Elon Musk doesn't strike me as an innovator when he talks about building tunnels and subways. He strikes me as Robert Moses.
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Who are these tunnels going to serve? The Latino communities in LA? Or are we just running them straight to the rich neighborhoods?
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Robert Moses permanently shaped the cultural landscape of New York City. It is what it is because of him. But it is what is because of him.
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What will Elon Musk do? What centuries-long impacts on our cities will he have, and who will profit from them? Who will pay?
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By the way,
@langdonw wrote about this in "Do Artifacts have Politics" almost *40 years ago.* https://innovate.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Winner-Do-Artifacts-Have-Politics-1980.pdf … - 11 more replies
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Don’t forget he was also a bigot - the reason the bridges on northern & southern state pkwys are so low was to stop buses with minorities
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Also my fault — I had a pause RT’ing that bit of the thread.
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sorry my bad - not Lily’s - I should have read the source thread directly. (Great thread/analysis)
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Hyperloop sounds to me very much like public transit. Or are you talking about urban scale like buses?
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