Robert Moses is considered one of the most important figures in modern city planning. He is the man responsible for many of New York City’s current infrastructure and roads. His ideas about what a city should be greatly divided people and turned him into a very controversial figure in NYC politics and government.

In the late 1930′s Robert Moses proposed an expressway called the Mid-Manhattan Expressway that would have cut directly across Manhattan, connecting the Midtown Tunnel with the Lincoln Tunnel. The plan never came into fruition because of opposition from people along the proposed expressway route, but it didn’t stop Vanshnookenraggen from reconstructing Moses’ plan in Google Maps. [via]

Vanshnookenraggen also made the Google Maps image below that shows another failed expressway propsed by Robert Moses in the 1960′s. This expressway below was dubbed the Lower Manhattan Expressway and would have cut through Lower Manhattan to connect the Holland Tunnel with the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges.