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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 3116154, member: 1644"]
mostly about what to do with the BQE but some good references to the lasting effect of the Robert Moses highway system throughout NY

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/infrastructure/want-to-fix-the-traffic-problem-tear-down-a-freeway.html[/URL]

"To understand what could happen with the BQE, it’s necessary to understand what highways did to cities across the state. “Robert Moses shaped a city and its sprawling suburbs,” Robert Caro wrote in his 1974 tome “The Power Broker.” “And to an extent that would have astonished analysts of urban trends had they measured the implications of his decades of handiwork, influenced the destiny of all the cities of twentieth century America.” For upstate cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, highways accelerated the decline of their urban cores, as middle-class, mostly white residents moved to the emerging suburbs. This sucked much of the tax base out of city governments, which then had less money to serve their remaining residents that were already suffering from the decline of the once-dominant manufacturing sector."
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