The New York City Subway System Is in a Dismal State of Repair

Bob Moses shaped the attitudes towards how you use architecture and how you use the lay out of a city to stop things like people sitting where you don't want them, right? By the ime he passed the new york city subway system was in a disastrous state of repair. The financial crisis of the 19 seventies contributed to this, but the fact that moses had spent decades worth of boom time money on choking highways played a larger role. One year after his death, the m t a announced a massive plan to revitalize the transit system.