Issue / Interstate Highway System
December 1955 Revised Eisenhower Highway Plan
Sep 06, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis PDF file contains three documents, in order: A December 8, 1955 memo to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey from Dan Throop...
The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke – Part 2: Ike Requests a 50% Gas Tax Increase, Which No One Likes
Sep 02, 2019 | Jeff DavisPart 1 of this look back at the September 1959 Highway Trust Fund bailout and contemporaneous motor fuels tax increase revealed how the...
The First Time the Highway Trust Fund Went Broke – Part 1: the 1958 Highway Act Makes Spending Unsustainable
Aug 21, 2019 | Jeff DavisAugust 21, 2019 Everyone who habitually reads ETW knows that the federal Highway Trust Fund went bankrupt in September 2008 and has...
White House Says $200B for Infrastructure Plan Excludes Surface Transportation Reauthorization
Mar 15, 2019 | Jeff DavisMarch 15, 2019 As part of its limited fiscal 2020 budget rollout this week, the White House once again proposed $200 billion in...
Op-Ed: The Future of the Interstate Highway System
Dec 14, 2018 | Paul LewisDecember 14, 2018 Few things are more American than the Interstate Highway System. Conceived to facilitate commerce across state...
What Is the Future of the Interstate Highway System? TRB Consensus Study Released
Dec 07, 2018 | Jeff DavisDecember 6, 2018 Three years and two days after the enactment of the FAST Act, the Transportation Research Board of the National...
What’s the Purpose of Mass Transit? – Part 4 – What’s the Underlying Goal of Transportation?
Jul 18, 2018 | Jeff DavisJuly 18, 2018 Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the decision to move federal mass transit programs from the Department of Housing...
FHWA Distributes $36.4 Billion in Highway Funding to States
Apr 18, 2018 | Jeff DavisApril 18, 2018 On Monday evening, the Federal Highway Administration distributed $36.4 billion in fiscal year 2018 highway spending...
GHSA Releases Annual Report on Pedestrian Fatalities
Mar 02, 2018 | Alice GrossmanMarch 2, 2018 Over the last decade, pedestrian deaths have been increasing both in number and as a share of all traffic fatalities...
FY19 Budget Request: Highway Trust Fund Promises Kept This Year, but No Plan for the Future
Feb 14, 2018 | Jeff DavisFebruary 14, 2018 The fiscal 2019 budget request from the Trump Administration scrupulously fulfills all of the promises made by the...
Bringing MPOs Into the FAST Era
Feb 02, 2018 | Alexander BondFebruary 2, 2018 Since metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) were first formed in early 1960s, their core mission has been to...
1978 Carter Message to Congress on Highway and Transit Programs
Jan 26, 2018 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThis is House Document 95-284, President Carter's message to Congress of January 26, 1978 transmitting his proposed highway and mass...