Robert Moses was successful carrying out many projects like this in the 1960s to add urban highways in NYC and other northeast US metropolitan areas.
It's mostly a big tragedy. Neighborhoods sliced through, where highways created largely impermeable boundaries for pedestrians. And the swaths of destruction where eminent domain was invoked and then dense, culturally rich, bustling, thriving blocks and blocks were bulldozed and paved.
Even the most collectivist public-transit apologist should be celebrating Robert Moses. He greatly expanded the predecessor to the MTA, and secured its legacy by building the toll bridges and tunnels that subsidize the wildly expensive New York City subways, generations after the bridges and tunnels have been paid off.
He used the toll revenue to fund his own highway building projects, independent of state/local budgets.
He fired everyone on his staff that advocated for rail network. He starved rail lines (that, at the time, were being used very heavily) in favor of road networks.
He also rather hated black people and puerto ricans.
I can only imagine you've heard things about Robert Moses written by the great fans of the man, who USUALLY were high-modernists who loved his big bridges and roads.
his biography, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of NYC" is the comprehensive evaluation of his life and legacy. He shaped the modern world 10x more than anyone else who has ever lived, and vastly for the worse.
It's mostly a big tragedy. Neighborhoods sliced through, where highways created largely impermeable boundaries for pedestrians. And the swaths of destruction where eminent domain was invoked and then dense, culturally rich, bustling, thriving blocks and blocks were bulldozed and paved.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses