1935 Davis-Bacon Act
Text of Public Law 403 of the 74th Congress, the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law.
1934 Hayden-Cartwright Act
Text of Public Law 393 of the 73rd Congress, which provided an additional $200 million in appropriations and $250 million in contract authority for the federal-aid highway program. Section 12 penalized states that divert highway…
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act
Text of Public Law 67 of the 73rd Congress, title II of which created a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works whose Administrator would take charge of all federal public works policy. Provided an additional…
1932 Emergency Relief and Construction Act
Provided an immediate $300 million in funding for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for immediate employment relief, to be repaid by states to the RFC out of future federal-aid highway apportionments.
1930 Federal-Aid Highways Amendments Act
Text of Public Law 179 of the 70th Congress, providing additional federal-aid highway funds for fiscal years 1932 and 1933.
FY 1968 Transportation Appropriations Act
Text of Public Law 90-111, the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1968.
FY 1969 Transportation Appropriations Act
Text of Public Law 90-464, the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1969.
FY 1970 Transportation Appropriations Act
Text of Public Law 91-168, the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1970.
FY 1972 Transportation Appropriations Act
Text of Public Law 92-74, the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1972.
Transportation Policy History – Archive of Etw Articles
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…
Surface Transportation Policy Partnership Archive
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.
Eno is proud to host the archive of STPP’s website which contains a repository of STPP reports, information, and activities.