Moses cleared homes for an expressway he had no funds to build

Evidence

To obtain the initial state consent to build the Cross-Bronx Expressway, Moses had, as usual, drastically underestimated its cost—which inflation was pushing higher by the month, anyway. By the time—November 1955—that Nassau Management boasted that almost all the tenants were gone, so was almost all the state’s highway construction fund, which had to bear half the expressway’s cost. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 3703

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Being stripped of power freed Moses’s imagination but left it with nowhere to act — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 4666; Moses learned reform is useless without pledged executive support — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 373; Moses left monumental works that failed to solve the city’s problems — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 106

Broader Connections

• Moses learned reform is useless without pledged executive support #expands (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 373
• Being stripped of power freed Moses’s imagination but left it with nowhere to act #exemplifies (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4666