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There have been a number of sound plans proposed.

But none of these has been implemented.

Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Nowhere has this decline been more painfully evident than in the New York City area.

Here the New York Central Railroad, one of the Nation's most important carriers, has alone lost 47.6 percent of its passengers since 1949.