Moderator: please fix my broken italics tag. Thanks.
Robert Moses was a wonderful champion of the automobile. Were it not for that great man, all of us, especially newly arrived immigrants and their families would be deprived of the pleasures of parking ramps.
An interesting book as is any that tells the story of what used to be Buffalo. I listen to my parents and hear how they would catch a streetcar at the Botanical Gardens in Lackawanna and ride it all the way down South Park to the downtown area. And all the way, South Park was bustling with activity and filled with shops. And where is it all now.
And now for our next topic: Robert Moses, History's Greatest Monster. And why the parkway leading to Niagara Falls is named after him is beyond me. At the very least, we should petition to have that renamed. No reason to immortalize this animal.
The definitive book about Buffalo's streetcar system is 90 Years of Buffalo Railways, 1850-1950: International Railway Company by William Gordon. It has over 500 pages, and is as complete as it gets: routes, rosters, mergers, photos, everything. Unfortunately, it's been out of print for years, and nearly impossible to find outside of libraries.
br_boy,
I here ya singing - R M was a downstate SOB. We will live with his errors for generations
I will never live to see streetcars because we in upstate are controlled by downstate ( I am 34) (Sam Hoyt prove your worth)
Street cars are the best way to get to bars Nite BFLO
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