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by itsmartapuntocm 434 days ago
It’s all by design. Car dependent suburbs with no transit access make it easier to keep “undesirables” out of your neck of the woods.

Robert Moses infamously made great use of infrastructure and urban planning to reinforce redlining.

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Just 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...

>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.

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