The true nature of the party has not changed. It is still dependent on bureaucrats, leaving everything up to them. In reforming the expressway public corporations, the party said it would not build new roads, but in the end it reached the conclusion that
Quotes about expressway (11 Quotes)
One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon It was too much, it was irresistible.
I remember several of my friends on the sophomore team got to dress for the playoff games, and I didn't get to because I had a knee injury, ... But I remember all those fan buses, especially when we went to Luther North and there was a long line of yellow buses coming off the expressway.
Considering the massive infrastructure projects coming to the city, notably the series of new metro lines, airport light rail and expressway, the long term outlook for the city is incredibly positive.
The major issue for us was that it truly was an urban site with all of the rough edges and toughness that you find in an urban site, one in the shadow of the expressway, bounded by four busy streets.
We are telling the private sector that the city of Tampa and the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority have no more money to put into this.
Mike Royko, of course a famous local journalist, in one of his books about Mayor Daley claimed that not only did the mayor not want the expressway going through Bridgeport, but he also wanted to keep a specific divider between the whites and the blacks. Of course the Daley administration at the time denied that and said they wanted to get rid of an inelegant turn in the expressway.
It's located at a major intersection in a growth area with outstanding expressway visibility. It's insulated in that it has location, and location in spades.
It gives fans a little more time to get here, especially with the construction on the Dan Ryan (Expressway).
They're not seeing the misery in their own families every day. We hide the poor in segregated neighborhoods, so it's easy to lose sight when you're zipping on the expressway every day to your job, then zipping back to the suburbs at night. You're seeing them at reunion time or when somebody calls up for some help. But now it's been made graphic to them. A lot of black people saw black poor people on television like everybody else.
We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main objective is to keep traffic moving efficiently.