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DOT General Counsel Letter to Senator Cruz re Phil Washington – March 9 2023
March 10,2023 This is a PDF copy of a March 9, 2023 letter from Department of Transportation General Counsel John Putnam to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) responding to a letter from Cruz and Congressman Sam Graves...1971 UMTA Feasibility Study for Federal Mass Transit Operating Subsidies
January 30,2023 This 139-page PDF file is the study commissioned by section 9of the Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1970. That law required the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of...
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Stay Order in Louisiana “Social Cost of Carbon” Case
March 18,2022 This is a PDF of a March 16, 2022 order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The unanimous order by a three-judge panel lifts the preliminary injunction issued a month before by the...1969 Volpe Fair Housing in USDOT-Funded Projects Policy
March 04,2022 This is a PDF from the Nixon Library of two documents. First: a draft press release from U.S. Transportation Secretary John Volpe announcing that all projects funded and approved by USDOT would have...
Railpax Final Route Announcement Press Kit
April 27,2021 This PDF file contains the text of prepared remarks from National Railroad Passenger Corporation chairman David Kendall and a press kit describing the route system to be served by the railroad, both...Railpax Route Briefing for Congress
April 27,2021 These are talking points and call assignments given to members of the National Railroad Passenger Corporations's Board of Incorporators in preparation for telephone calls the incorporators were to...Railpax Recommended Routes – March 1971
April 25,2021 This large PDF file is of a 273-page 3-ring binder presented to the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation by their McKinsey and Co. consultant team in March 1971 so...1970 McKinsey Proposal for Railpax Organization
April 24,2021 This is a PDF of a December 29, 1970 report from consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation on how to organize the new railroad. The...Minutes of Meetings of Railpax Board of Incorporators
April 24,2021 This large PDF file is the bound 190-page compilation of the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, held from December 22, 1970 to March...Nov. 1970 Nixon Railpax Route Order for Volpe
March 11,2021 This is a November 25, 1970 memo from OMB Director George Shultz to Transportation Secretary John Volpe notifying of President Nixon's decisions related to the preliminary routes served by the...
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...
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.
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