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October 28, 1955 Cabinet Meeting on Highways

September 6, 2020

September 6, 2020 | Jeff Davis

This PDF file contains documents relating to the October 28, 1955 Cabinet meeting. This was another meeting conducted in the...

September 30, 1955 Cabinet Meeting

September 6, 2020

September 6, 2020 | Jeff Davis

This PDF file contains records from the Eisenhower Library on the Cabinet meeting of September 30, 1955, which was historic...

December 1955 Revised Eisenhower Highway Plan

September 6, 2020

September 6, 2020 | Jeff Davis

This file contains several documents relating to the Eisenhower Administration's revised December 1955 Interstate highway funding proposal (after Congress had...

The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke - Part 2: Ike Requests a 50% Gas Tax Increase, Which No One Likes

September 2, 2019

September 2, 2019 | Jeff Davis

September 2, 2019 - In January 1959, President Eisenhower asked Congress to increase the federal gasoline tax by 50 percent...

The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke - Part 1: the 1958 Highway Act Makes Spending Unsustainable

August 21, 2019

August 21, 2019 | Jeff Davis

August 21, 2019 - The Highway Trust Fund actually had to be bailed out 60 years ago, in September 1959....

White House Says $200B for Infrastructure Plan Excludes Surface Transportation Reauthorization

March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019 | Jeff Davis

March 15, 2019 - The White House now says that $200 billion in infrastructure funding in the budget won't go...

Op-Ed: The Future of the Interstate Highway System

December 14, 2018

December 14, 2018 | Paul Lewis

December 14, 2018 - TRB's new report on the future of the Interstate Highway System falls short of the bold...

What Is the Future of the Interstate Highway System? TRB Consensus Study Released

December 7, 2018

December 7, 2018 | Jeff Davis

December 7, 2018 - Three years and two days after the enactment of the FAST Act, the Transportation Research Board...

What's the Purpose of Mass Transit? - Part 4 - What's the Underlying Goal of Transportation?

July 18, 2018

July 18, 2018 | Jeff Davis

July 18, 2018 - This part, which is happily coincident with today's Senate hearing on President Trump's proposed executive branch...

FHWA Distributes $36.4 Billion in Highway Funding to States

April 18, 2018

April 18, 2018 | Jeff Davis

April 18, 2018 - On Monday evening, the Federal Highway Administration distributed $36.4 billion in fiscal year 2018 highway spending...

GHSA Releases Annual Report on Pedestrian Fatalities

March 2, 2018

March 2, 2018 | Alice Grossman

March 2, 2018 Over the last decade, pedestrian deaths have been increasing both in number and as a share of...

FY19 Budget Request: Highway Trust Fund Promises Kept This Year, but No Plan for the Future

February 14, 2018

February 14, 2018 | Jeff Davis

February 14, 2018 - The fiscal 2019 budget request from the Trump Administration scrupulously fulfills all of the promises made...