Financing Federal-Aid Highways – 1976 Edition
FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1976 authorization law.
1965 White House Transportation Task Force Papers
Fifty years ago today, Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation Alan Boyd sent a letter to President Johnson’s domestic policy advisor, Joseph Califano, transmitting the first round of working papers prepared by the interagency Task…
1965 White House Highway Beautification Strategy Memos (July 30 – August 18)
August 1965 White House legislative strategy memos relating to highway beautification legislation.
1965 Moyers Memos to Develop 1966 Transportation Legislative Proposals
August 1965 memoranda from White House advisor Bill Moyers relating to meetings “to identify and lay plans for the careful development and review of potential legislative proposals to the second session of the 89th Congress…
1955 Democratic National Committee Opposition Research Memo on the Clay Commission Highway Plan
April 1955 opposition research memo from the Democratic National Committee criticizing the “Clay Commission” Interstate highway plan submitted by President Eisenhower.
1965 FAA Administrator Halaby Resignation Letter to LBJ
June 30, 1965 resignation letter from FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby to President Johnson where Halaby recommends the creation of a new Department of Transportation to include the FAA.
1215 Magna Carta Excerpt on the Obligation to Build Bridges
Analysis of the provision in Magna Carta preventing the Crown from forcing local landowners to build bridges across navigable waterways.
1982 White House Gas Tax Decision Memoranda
A series of three late November 1982 memos from DOT and OMB trying to refute the arguments that each agency made to President Reagan in the final Cabinet meetings to determine whether or not the…
1961 HHFA Recommended Urban Planning Draft Legislation
A June 1961 memo to President Kennedy from the head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency transmitting the draft legislation to give permission for two or more states to establish joint planning organizations for…
1923 U.K. Cabinet Memo on Road Fund Revenue Dedication
A January 1923 memo to the U.K. Cabinet by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury questioning the wisdom of the Road Fund (created in 1909 with a dedicated revenue stream from motor vehicle taxes) and…
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.