A highway engineer commented recently that the present network of expressways in the New York Region will be filled by the early 1970s. But citizen resistance to new expressways is growing - resistance to the human disruption caused by cutting through a neighborhood and resistance to the ugliness that often results from expressway construction in urban areas. Public funds also lag behind highway demands.
Highway planning has become an amalgam of considerations of economic cost and benefits, community impact and aesthetics. This means looking at transportation as a whole, public as well as automobile, and at land development in relation to both.
The Tri-State Transportation Committee - a planning agency established by the three governors of the Region and assisted by the federal government as well as Regional Plan Association are now studying highway requirements and possibilities for the Region’s next thirty years.
