December 1955 Revised Eisenhower Highway Plan
This file contains several documents relating to the Eisenhower Administration’s revised December 1955 Interstate highway funding proposal (after Congress had rejected the first proposal in July 1955).
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By Jeff Davis
This file contains several documents relating to the Eisenhower Administration’s revised December 1955 Interstate highway funding proposal (after Congress had rejected the first proposal in July 1955).
By Jeff Davis
September 2, 2019 – In January 1959, President Eisenhower asked Congress to increase the federal gasoline tax by 50 percent in order to prevent the Highway Trust Fund from running out of money later that year. Congress and the states did not receive the request well.
By Jeff Davis
August 21, 2019 – The Highway Trust Fund actually had to be bailed out 60 years ago, in September 1959. Why did this happen, and how did the political system at the time bring the system back to solvency? Part 1 details how Congress and the President decided in 1958 to overspend the Trust Fund into insolvency.
By Jeff Davis
March 15, 2019 – The White House now says that $200 billion in infrastructure funding in the budget won’t go towards surface transportation reauthorization, but that the surface bill will be counted towards the $1 trillion spending total.
By Paul Lewis
December 14, 2018 – TRB’s new report on the future of the Interstate Highway System falls short of the bold vision needed to solve the system’s intractable problems.
By Jeff Davis
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By Jeff Davis
July 18, 2018 – This part, which is happily coincident with today’s Senate hearing on President Trump’s proposed executive branch reorganization plan, explores how the Nixon Administration in 1971 did a complete conceptual about-face on the issue.
By Jeff Davis
April 18, 2018 – On Monday evening, the Federal Highway Administration distributed $36.4 billion in fiscal year 2018 highway spending authority to states pursuant to the recently-enacted fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations law.
March 2, 2018 Over the last decade, pedestrian deaths have been increasing both in number and as a share of all traffic fatalities on US roads. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released its annual report on pedestrian traffic fatalities this week with data and analysis on pedestrian deaths in…
By Jeff Davis
February 14, 2018 – The fiscal 2019 budget request from the Trump Administration scrupulously fulfills all of the promises made by the FAST Act for Highway Trust Fund financial resources for the year covered by the budget. And while the budget does not put forward any proposal to deal with the Trust Fund’s insolvency that will occur starting in 2021, it does change the way that the insolvency is presented in the budget numbers that, to us, seems better than the way this data has been presented in the past.
February 2, 2018 – The policy and practice under which metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) operate has not kept up with shifts in federal policy. It is time to update the role MPOs play.
This is House Document 95-284, President Carter’s message to Congress of January 26, 1978 transmitting his proposed highway and mass transit reauthorization bill.
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