Set of memos from May 1975 preparing President Ford to decide whether or not the Administration’s forthcoming railroad policy bill would contain antitrust immunity for discussion by railroad rate bureaus of general rate increases. USDOT,…
Text of Public Law 94-210, the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976.
White House memos relating to a December 1, 1970 meeting of the “Transportation Policy Group” – White House, OMB, and DOT officials together with outside academic experts and representatives from other federal agencies. A two-page…
A July 19, 1972 memo from Transportation Secretary Volpe to President Nixon’s top domestic policy aide, John Ehrlichman, describing the looming bankruptcy of the Penn Central railroad and the potential federal actions to deal with…
Text of Public Law 93-44, the Airport Development Acceleration Act of 1973. Section 7 of the law banned airports from collecting what are now called Passenger Facility Charges.
This is a series of Nixon White House memos from October 1970 – Congress had presented the President with the enrolled bill S. 3755, the Airport Development Acceleration Act of 1970. The bill would have…
December 9, 1970 OMB memo detailing a December 8 conversation between OMB staff and the House Republican members of the conference committee on the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 (H.R. 19504), who were trying to…
Memo of December 8, 1970 providing a record of a telephone call between a Nixon Administration official and the Republican staff of the House Public Works Committee indicating how the House-Senate conference committee on the…
Draft letter from OMB to the conferees on the 1970 highway bill (H.R. 19504) expressing Administration views on items in the bill. The attachment had already been given to the staffs of the Public Works…
December 1, 1970 update of this document from the Department of Transportation expressing whether not DOT’s views on each of the major issues in dispute in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 (H.R. 19504) had…
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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