This is a January 28, 1966 memo from Cecil Mackey of the Commerce Department to Alan Boyd, Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, transmitting the latest for how the White House task force on creating…
This is a PDF compilation of 55 original documents relating to the decision in 1968 to move federal responsibility for urban mass transportation from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Department of…
This is an unofficial estimate of Senate support for Senator Harrison Williams’ (D-NJ) mass transit bill, dated March 6, 1963, taken by “a hastily convened meeting, including municipal people, [the American Transit Association], railroad, county,…
This is a memo from White House staffer Mike Manatos (their legislative affairs contact for Senate offices) to his boss Larry O’Brien (the overall head of legislative affairs) dated March 13, 1963 regarding the pending…
These are the minutes of a strategy meeting held December 13, 1962 among a variety of mass transit interest groups and legislative and Administration representatives as to how legislation for a permanent mass transit subsidy…
March 15, 1961 memo from Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation C.D. Martin, Jr. on the Commerce Department’s views on the bill S. 345 (the Williams bill) and the Commerce Department’s place in the scheme…
Text of the bill S. 3278 of the 86th Congress, introduced on March 24, 1960 by Sen. Harrison Williams (D-NJ) and other cosponsors. This would be the first bill providing federal aid for urban mass…
This is the bill H.R. 10808 of the 86th Congress, one of a series of identical bills introduced in March 1960 based on draft legislation proposed by the American Municipal Association, which was in turn…
This is the text of the bill H.R. 11816 of the 85th Congress, introduced in the House of Representatives on April 1, 1958 by Rep. William Green, Jr. (D-PA). This may have been the first…
This is an internal memo from the White House Bureau of the Budget dated March 11, 1960 summarizing legislation introduced in the House of Representatives (as H.R. 10808, 10843, 10852, 10863, and 10885) at the…
This is a database of information related to maintenance of public transit systems. This database was created by the Eno Center for Transportation for our report, “Tools for a Smoother Ride: Managing Rail Assets and…
This study examines rail maintenance program needs and practices through dozens of interviews with public and private stakeholders and experts around the country. The consensus was that asset management practices in the United States are…
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