November 9, 1965 from Bureau of the Budget Director Charles Schultze to White House aide Lee White notifying White of the introduction of legislation in the House and Senate (including one bill by Senate Commerce…
Set of memos sent to White House domestic policy chief Joseph Califano on November 24, 1965 giving the Bureau of the Budget’s opinions on the three parts of the FY 1966 legislative agenda for transportation…
Congressional Research Service report dated November 20, 2015 entitled Federalism Issues in Surface Transportation Policy: A Historical Perspective by Robert Jay Dilger. The report provides a 43-page overview of how federalism concerns shaped the federal…
April 29, 1970 confidential memo from White House aide Ed Harper to President Nixon’s domestic policy czar, John Ehrlichman, suggesting that the President impound (hold back from availability) even more highway contract authority from the…
White House papers, letters and memos relating to the November 10, 1982 meeting of the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs to discuss Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis’s proposal for a gasoline and diesel tax increase. These…
This is a series of memos presented to President Ford in May 1975 requesting his decisions on highway funding policy for fiscal 1976 and thereafter. The main issue was that the newly created Congressional budget…
June 1978 report by the National Transportation Safety Board on the causes of the October 20, 1977 crash of a chartered Convair 240 near Gillsburg, Mississippi that killed six people including the lead singer and…
December 30, 1968 memo from Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd to White House domestic policy chief Joseph Califano transmitting a five-page summary of an internal USDOT proposal to create an Urban Mass Transportation Trust Fund to…
September 13, 1965 memo from Bureau of the Budget Assistant Director to Director Charles Schultze entitled “Transportation Chaos.” The memo references Council of Economic Advisers member Arthur Okun’s memo sent to days previously complaining about…
September 11, 1965 memo from Council of Economic Advisers member Arthur Okun to CEA chairman Gardner Ackley entitled “Transportation Program: High Road or Low Road?” and expressing concerns that the transportation program “is not shaping…
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…
For over a quarter century, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) worked to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment. From its earliest days impacting the landmark Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, STPP was always on the vanguard of transportation reform in the United States.
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