proxim2020 wrote:
captnjack wrote:
Lynnmor wrote:
We should all have special roads that exclude the unwashed so we can drive our overpriced little car from our overpriced home to our overpaid job, and not use the public transportation system. Of course politics has nothing to do with it, no way, no how, not in the NYC area.
You forgot to mention that the public transportation is also over priced.
If you have evidence, or even an opinion, supporting the politics-based argument you should share it with us.
If I remember correctly, it's believed that the designer of the Southern State Parkway had the bridges built low on purpose to keep commercial truck out of the area and bus traffic from traveling to a popular beach. Since only the upper class owned vehicles in those days, it would limit lower income and minorities access to the beach.
Conspiracy theory? Urban legend? Truth? Who knows? The design of those parkways mimics other earlier parkways north of the city. But the Long Island parkways do have slightly lower bridge heights on average. So it's certainly possible.
