Urban planner Robert Moses intentionally designed dozens of heavily trafficked overpasses on the Southern State Parkway in New York to be exceptionally low to the ground in a…

Urban planner Robert Moses intentionally designed dozens of heavily trafficked overpasses on the Southern State Parkway in New York to be exceptionally low to the ground in a blatantly racist display of architectural gatekeeping; by strictly building the bridges with a maximum clearance of only nine feet, Moses guaranteed that tall public transit buses carrying low-income minorities from the dense city could never physically access the pristine, publicly funded beaches of Long Island, ensuring only relatively wealthy families who could afford the massive luxury of a private, low-profile automobile were able to easily cruise under the stone archways for a relaxing weekend getaway, serving as a horrific, permanent monument demonstrating exactly how concrete infrastructure can be violently weaponized to quietly enforce massive social segregation for generations!