November 11, 1977 memo from Transportation Secretary Brock Adams to President Carter summarizing the draft surface transportation reauthorization legislation that USDOT had just submitted to the Office of Management and Budget and to White House…
November 14, 1980 briefing materials given to President Carter by his domestic policy staff and the Justice Department outlining a proposed settlement in litigation with the bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Company over the value of…
Video of the bill signing ceremony for the TEA21 bill on June 9, 1998. https://www.c-span.org/video/?106952-1/transportation-bill-signing
Partial legislative history of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 – Part I consists of proposals on this topic made by the Johnson Administration in 1967 and 1968.
Undated early 1968 Bureau of the Budget memo on whether or not the proposed Federal Airport Act complied with BoB credit guidelines.
Undated early 1968 White House memo summarizing internal Johnson Administration objections to parts of the airport and airway finance plan
June 7, 1968 memo from Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd to White House domestic policy aide Joseph Califano and Bureau of the Budget chief Charles Zwick outlining the fiscal year 1969 budget increases DOT was proposing…
May 22, 1968 White House staff memo to President Johnson relating that Senate Aviation Subcommittee chairman Mike Monroney (D-OK) did not support the President’s airport and airway proposal and “thinks that a user’s tax is…
May 17, 1968 decision memo from White House domestic policy chief Joe Califano to President Johnson requesting his approval to proceed with the transmission of the airport and airway finance proposal to Congress.
May 8, 1968 memo from Bureau of the Budget deputy director Phillip S. Hughes to the de facto White House Chief of Staff, James Jones, giving a status update on the Administration’s airport and airway…
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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