Moses began building roads twelve years after first proposing them

Evidence

On August 28, 1926, with only a handful of engineers and an uninterested construction gang as an audience, Robert Moses dug a spade into the soil near the reservoir and jerked it out. The earth that came up with it was the first ever turned for a Robert Moses road. His talk with Frances Perkins about the highway below Riverside Drive had taken place in 1914, a full twelve years before. He had been planning roads ever since. As he stood there still holding the shovel, a foreman gave a signal and laborers began to shovel dirt into the small, spoke-wheeled dump trucks that in the 1920’s served as earth-moving machines. Robert Moses stepped back and watched the work begin. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 973

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• Moses envisioned the Manhattan waterfront parkway as early as 1914 #expands (0.78) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 281