Robert Moses, Penn Station and why progs want even more gov power.

[Anti Federalist]

Long read but well worth it.

Misses multiple points, being a prog...but still important to understand why the infrastructure continues to crumble around us.

@acptulsa wants to read this and comment

Too long to copypasta, but here's the start:



This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...=pocket-newtab

The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, believe it or not, Robert Caro is to blame.

At the northeastern corner of the underground maze that doubles as the Western Hemisphere’s most heavily trafficked transit hub, two frantic streams of pedestrians converge. Commuters—more than 8,000 of them heading in and out, every hour, during the morning rush—enter New York’s Pennsylvania Station from the blocks surrounding Macy’s department store and go down a crowded set of escalators off 34th Street. After arriving at the basement level, they merge with the hordes that exit New York’s subway, roughly 27 million passengers entering and leaving this one station each year. Together, the two torrents then enter the “barrel corridor,” a cavelike hallway lined with drug stores, coffee shops and rundown delis hocking “big boys,” the canisters of cheap beer popular with construction workers heading home to Long Island.

In May 2017, near the end of an ordinary Wednesday morning rush hour, a sewer pipe set above the barrel corridor burst open. Within minutes, streams of excrement poured through the station’s tiled ceiling. Sludge spread from a shabby McDonald’s at one end of the corridor to the Long Island Railroad ticket windows farther down. Armed with mops and buckets, janitors placed rolling dumpsters beneath the heaviest streams, but they couldn’t contain the flood. Unwitting commuters, their eyes cast at the downpour, traipsed through the mess, tracking it in all directions. A stench permeated the whole complex... (continues at link)

[Swordsmyth]

The Machine Stops.

[Anti Federalist]

The Machine Stops.

The Center Does Not Hold

[Anti Globalist]

Luckily I don't need to travel during the holiday season because the majority of my family lives in Indiana. Only exception is my mother who lives in Texas and shes the only one that does the traveling.