"New York Bay Area Development Plan"

A month later, John received a 200-plus page development plan.

This plan is a strategic plan for the development of the New York Bay Area in the next 25 years, and a specific implementation plan, covering the economy, education, transportation, public security, environment, finance, resources, market, and technology of the entire Bay Area...... It is a plan formulated by the regional committee and the metropolitan area planning organization after four years of research and discussion, and is an important reference for government departments to manage the Bay Area.

John then gave the plan to Morgan Sr., who could not do anything so big, so Morgan Sr. made a copy of the plan and returned it to John, and then threw a sentence at him.

"You are solely responsible for this!"

John was dumbfounded.

"Father, you trust me too much!"

"You are my son, of course I believe in you, don't worry!"

Old Morgan waved his hand away after speaking.

John left the study, and Morgan Sr. threw the photocopied plan to Archie. "Take it to the development plan and let them evaluate it. ”

"Okay. ”

Old Morgan only said that he trusted John one second, but the next second he asked Archie to find someone to evaluate the plan, which was too fast!

In fact, old Morgan didn't distrust John, but he had to be cautious about such a big matter, which after all, was related to the future of tens of millions of people. And he also wants to see how John will deal with it, whether he is independent or negotiable, which is a test of whether a manager can work together and gather everyone's wisdom in the face of major events.

John walked out of the old Morgan's study, looking at the plan in his hand has a headache, the more than 200 pages of the plan just read it for several days, to figure out the content of the estimated month, and may not be able to understand, this thing is a group of professionals to do four years to get out, everything involved in it, he is not a generalist, how can it be clear.

And this plan is related to the development of the New York Bay Area in the next 25 years, if it is wrong, this joke will be big.

John felt that the professional work should be left to the professionals, so as soon as he returned to his study, he called Dani over and asked Dani to notify the Federal Department of Development and the Planning Commission, as well as the New York Bay Area Regional Planning Association and the Metropolitan Area Planning Organization, to come to Morgan Estate to evaluate the plan.

Although John is not a professional in this area, he can find a group of experts to assist, and the federal and local development planning departments will evaluate together, and the reason will become clearer and clearer, and finally come up with a reasonable development plan.

On the other side, Archie, who had just left, returned to the old Morgan's study with the plan book not long after, and the old Morgan looked at the plan in his hand and frowned slightly, and asked. "What's wrong?"

"JK decided to have the federal and New York Department of Local Development Planning come to Morgan Manor to discuss the plan, so I don't think there is a need to go over there!"

"In that case, forget it. ”

Old Morgan smiled slightly, he was very satisfied with John's handling of it, he did not make arbitrariness, but brought professionals to participate together, which is very good.

Three days later, more than 50 people from the federal and New York local development planning departments gathered at Morgan Manor to discuss and evaluate the New York development plan one by one in the large conference room.

With so many people getting together, there will definitely be differences of opinion, and quarrels are inevitable, but the points of contention also prove that they still need to be improved, which is also the purpose of John's meeting, the New York Bay Area, as the most important region in the United States, cannot make mistakes in the future decision.

"Population and factories are moving to the suburbs, and we should focus on developing the suburban transportation network, rather than improving the urban center transportation network. ”

"It is precisely because the population and factories have moved to the suburbs and the hollowing out of urban centers that we need to improve the urban transportation network and promote the re-prosperity of urban centers. ”

The two sides are at odds over the future transportation plan for the New York Bay Area, with one side arguing that suburban transportation should be vigorously developed to connect the surrounding counties, and the other side arguing that urban centers should be improved and revitalized.

The two sides have their own reasons, and no one can convince anyone, and they have quarreled all morning over this issue, and now their saliva is about to spray on each other's faces.

"Everybody......!"

John slapped the table to stop the two sides from arguing, and waited until the room was quiet before saying.

"I've listened to you debating all morning, and it's really just a debate, whether to develop the suburbs or restore the city center? There's really nothing to debate at all, and if the New York Bay Area wants to be the world's largest bay area, it has to be developed in an all-round way, not in one place.

There are more than 50 universities in the New York Bay Area, graduating hundreds of thousands of college students every year, and the government can build some cheap housing in the city center to provide graduates with a place to live, so that they can start a business and work here. This will not only keep these talents in the New York Bay Area, but will also revitalize the city center.

As long as 20% of the people can be retained every year, the city center will definitely become the most dynamic place in the entire Bay Area, the most innovative place, and the place with the largest concentration of small and medium-sized enterprises in 20 or 30 years.

What the government should do is to increase its support for small and medium-sized enterprises, not only to take care of them in terms of policies, but also to provide convenience and assistance, and to continue to increase the crackdown on criminals and create a safe and beautiful entrepreneurial environment for these small and medium-sized enterprises.

Therefore, the traffic problem of the city center should not only be improved, but also comprehensively improved, connecting the inside and outside, and promoting the prosperity of the city center. ”

"But in this way, the investment in transportation will increase, and the current investment has reached 381.2 billion US dollars! If we build transportation in the city center, it may increase by about 80 billion US dollars, to about 461.2 billion US dollars. As soon as John's words fell, the head of transportation planning replied.

Such an investment is too large, even if the federal government bears 80%, New York will have to bear more than 100 billion dollars independently.

"The investment is huge, but it is worth it, it will connect the city center with the suburbs, connect the surrounding more than 30 counties into a whole, and the high-speed transportation will bring about rapid economic growth. ”

If you want to get rich and build roads first, this iron law can be applied everywhere, without convenient transportation, the economy will not develop at all.