Robert Moses famously built the bridges on Long Island with low underpasses so that buses from Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods couldn't get to Jones Beach. I don't have the crayons, nor the patience, to explain why this is indeed very racist. https://t.co/vAcOcUKBIc pic.twitter.com/Djx0Nhqqyh
— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) March 28, 2024
Turns out bridges can be racist
https://twitter.com/the_transit_guy/status/1773370129318838272
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Robert Moses wasn't even racist. Some cute twink just invented the idea that he was in order to write a book which no one actually read but gets cited through a long game of telephone.
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Is crayons the new spoonies?
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holy shit the amount of actually highways literally are racist on twitter the last few days IS FRICKING KILLING ME. JESUS CHRIST EVERY FRICKING THING IS RACIST APPARENTLY.
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What?
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Especially to people of border disregarding.
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I mean, Bob mo famously did intentionally design the southern and northern state parkways to be too small for buses. Same with the fdr drive.
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Robert Moses has been dead for 43 years now and not a day goes by without some urbanist cute twink going in his remembrance.
That's the kind of legacy I want to leave.
And you know what the funny thing is? The guy lived up to 92 and never once drove a car.
!chuds be like Robert Moses.
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I had no idea the impact a singular could have
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its gonna be a "yikes" and "my brother in christ" from me dawgg
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He had a chauffeur
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maybe he was a van chad
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well he did say roads were racist
Buttigieg says America's highways are racist and infrastructure bill will help fix it
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Need mo money fo dem programz
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STL was a test city for the Highway system, and they didn't build exits in black neighborhoods, saying they were "areas of low economic interest"
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are there still no exits in black neighborhoods in STL?
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There are fewer, but they've added them over time, and it wasn't none, but very few
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They should have left it that way, have you ever accidentally taken an exit into East STL?
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Drive through to go to family gathering in Illinois
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Huh, and I expected the short bus to be filled with blacks and Puerto Ricans
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I feel like if they gave like a 2 second explanation instead of just saying "bridge racist" this would be even more of a nothingburger than it already is.
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But the explanations they would give would out them as intending exactly what they said
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