This is a PDF of the “memo for the record” by General John Stewart Bragdon, President Eisenhower’s public works advisor on the White House staff, recounting a meeting held on December 13, 1954 in which…
This is a May 4, 1954 letter from New York City planning czar Robert Moses and New York State Public Works Commissioner (and future Federal Highway Administrator) Bertram Tallamy to President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff,…
Memo from Senate Commerce Committee staff to chairman Hollings dated July 29, 1987 informing Hollings that Aviation Subcommittee chairman Ford will soon introduce legislation making the Federal Aviation Administration an independent agency.
Bill summary of S. 1600 (100th Congress), a bill to establish an independent FAA, prepared by Senate Commerce Committee staff for chairman Hollings.
Internal comparison by the Senate Commerce Committee staff of various FAA independence proposals pushed by Senator Wendell Ford (D-KY) (S. 1600, 100th Congress), a coalition of aviation stakeholders, the President’s Aviation Safety Commission, Transportation Secretary…
FHWA publication explaining the finances of the federal-aid highway program under the 1987 authorization law (STURAA).
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation staff memo to chairman Fritz Hollings (D-SC) dated July 27, 1987 summarizing the bill (S. 1159, 100th Congress) to create a federal corporation called the National Aviation Authority to provide…
September 1985 white paper from the Air Transport Association entitled “Federal Corporation Approach to the Management and Funding of the Air Traffic Control System.”
Undated study entitled “A Study of the Safety/Regulatory Functions of the Air Traffic Control System,” prepared by Raymond Belanger and Charles Newpol for the Air Transport Association of America, probably in the 1985 to 1987…
March 1986 study by a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration entitled “The Air Traffic Control System: Management by a Government Corporation.”
Someone once asked me if all of the transportation policy history articles I have written for ETW were collected in one place. They were not, so now they are. Multi-Part Series: A Conversation With Alan Boyd, the First U.S. Secretary of Transportation Part 1 (February…
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