NEW YORK SCHEME

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1929, Page 5

NEW YORK SCHEME

> ■ UiV TO COST COO MILLIONS, t ; NEW YORK, .May 29. ‘ A grandiose scheme, the execution of whicii will cost approximately £6OO, 000,000, has been prepared to enable 20,000,000 people, to live comfortably and travel quickly, and. freely in land about Greater New York of the future'. The preparation of the scheme has itself involved an expenditure of £200,000 by the -Russell Sage Fouhda~ tion, which was incorporated in 1907 by the late Mrs. Russell Sage, the fathous philanthropist, for the “improvement of the social and living conditions of,the-United States,” The scheme, of “regional plan,” as it is called, is the jfruit,of seven years of and investigate by 150 eminent engineers, architects, economists and-city p.anners. It is now embodied .in two bulky volumes and a vast collection of charts and maps. Its outlines were explained and its general principles accepted at a great meeting here last night, attended by the Governors of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and by representatives of 22 counties and 438 towns and villages within the borders of those States.

5,528 SQUARE' MILES. The experts, responsble far, the scheme calculate that Greater New York will have 20,000,C00 inhabitants by 1905. ■ Their proposal is that all improvements in the numerous communites which it embraces shall be designed. and carried out in consonance with a 1 general plan. Greater New York of the future as planed by them covers an area of 5,528 square miles. Altogether 500 separate proposals are put forward, embracing a new highway system, a se'ietifically laid-outi railway plan, new bridges, and tunnels across the Hudson, Harlem, and East Rivers, an elaborate series of parks, and for 46 airports to take care of furure aeroplane transportation.