![]() Now he began to limit access by buses he instructed Shapiro to build the bridges across his new parkways low - too low for buses to pass. He had restricted the use of state parks by poor and lower-middle-class families in the first place, by limiting access to the parks by rapid transit he had vetoed the Long Island Rail Road's proposed construction of a branch spur to Jones Beach for this reason. It's a great amorphous mass to him it needs to be bathed, it needs to be aired, it needs recreation, but not for personal reasons - just to make it a better public." Now he began taking measures to limit use of his parks. To him they were lousy, dirty people, throwing bottles all over Jones Beach. He'd denounce the common people terribly. ![]() "It used to shock me because he was doing all these things for the welfare of the people. "He doesn't love the people," she was to say. Underlying Moses' strikingly strict policing for cleanliness in his parks was, Frances Perkins realized with "shock," deep distaste for the public that was using them. “Roosevelt wouldn't interfere even when he found out that Moses was discouraging Negroes from using many of his state parks. ![]()
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