ABSTRACT
The year 1965 was thus selected as the benchmark time horizon on which regional development assumptions might be made. Comparison of 1965 reality and Plan are easily made. The 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs left a profound imprint on urban America and metropolitan New York. The 1929 Regional Plan for the trunk-line rail system was, as we have seen, based largely on the 1920 Port of New York Authority Plan, which by 1941 was moribund. The railroad companies, persisting in their dedication to nineteenth-century laissez-faire competition, saw little reason to cooperate with each other or with the Port Authority. On the eve of US entry into World War II the Port Authority made an attempt to bring the railroads together in the matter of transit. If by 1965 the rail and transit elements of the Regional Plan had largely failed to achieve results, the contrary was true of the highway and parkway components.
