>>1153353Yes, and NYC would unquestionably be a better place today if all his plans were followed through.
Just imagine if the Manhattan expressways had been built and you could drive straight from Newark to Nassau on the same, unbroken stretch of highway. It wouldn't have replaced rail, but it would have beautifully complemented every piece of infrastructure that had been built up until that point as well as every bit that has been built since.
Furthermore, imagine a world where the Big Dig happened not in Boston, but in NYC as the Moses expressways were sunk underground creating dozens of miles of High Line-style linear parks cutting across Manhattan, connecting Central Park to the rivers and giving lower Manhattan its own large parks while personal traffic whizzes to and fro underneath. Manhattan land values would likely be even higher than they already are, with that sort of aesthetic connectivity.
