April 26, 1972 memo from White House aide Egil “Bud” Krogh to President Nixon requesting that he officially reject Transportation Secretary Volpe’s proposal for mass transit operating subsidies. This copy of the memo does not…
Memo dated May 25, 1961 from the Housing and Home Finance Agency transmitting draft mass transit legislation to the White House.
Preliminary Bureau of the Budget staff memo dated May 20, 1961 expressing BoB reservations about specific provisions of the draft Presidential Message on Transportation.
Draft statement for President Kennedy dated May 19, 1961 produced by the Office of Program Policy within the Housing and Home Finance Agency entitled “Urban Development and Transportation.” From the files of White House aide…
Proposed legislation transmitted by the Transportation Department to Congress on May 20, 1968 entitled the “Airway User Act of 1968” together with a cover letter and a section-by-section explanation of the draft bill.
White House internal memo from Lee White to President Kennedy dated May 9, 1961 updating the President on negotiations with Senator Harrison Williams regarding his mass transit bill (S. 345), especially the question of operating…
August 1, 1991 hearing of the House Rules Committee on H.R. 2950, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, at which the bipartisan leaders of the Public Works and Transportation Committee explained the bill to the…
July 26, 1991 full committee markup in the House Transportation and Public Works Committee of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (H.R. 2950).
The issue of whether the government should pay for transportation through general revenues or through some kind of charges on the users of the transportation system goes back a long way. In 1965, the Johnson…
Transcript of hearings before the Senate Transportation-Housing Appropriations Subcommittee in March and April 2008 on the fiscal year 2009 budget request for the Department of Transportation.
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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