Robert Moses - The Man Who Built New York

In recent years, some dals have sought to rehabilitate robert moses and and critique. One claim that these folks will make is that mose's bridges were not too low for busses to pass underneath. But thomas j campanella, a cornell university historian of city planning, wrote an article where he tests all these theories once and for all. He studied 20 bridges, viaducts and over passes on other park ways built elsewhere in new york state at the time. And he finds that the clearances on all the bridges moses had built in the southern state park way are way lower. The westchester park ways set most of the standards park