On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > N.B. Directions to Jones Beach > > By train and bus, take the LIRR from Penn Station to Freeport; buses run > from Freeport to Jones Beach every half hour; roundtrip tickets to Jones > Beach include bus fare. Needless to say, not an option when the bridges were built; Moses personally vetoed that spur of the LIRR. Buses could get to the beaches on local roads, but the trip was thus made longer and more costly. Moses's attempts to keep buses full of poor and black people off his beaches (low bridges were only one of several strategies) is discussed and documented at length in (and perhaps Winner borrowed the argument from?) Robert Caro's wonderful book _The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York_. It's even in the index: buses, bridges too low for. Michael __________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
