Author: Carol Dawson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
Miles and Miles of Texas
Author: Carol Dawson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
Legislation to Approve the National Highway System and Ancillary Issues Related to Highway and Transit Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 1928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 1928
Book Description
Intelligent Vehicle-highway Systems Program and Commercial Motor Vehicles
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reimbursement of Toll Or Free Roads on the Interstate System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Considers legislation to increase reimbursement to states for roads built for the interstate highway system.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Considers legislation to increase reimbursement to states for roads built for the interstate highway system.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
National Highway Study
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
National Highway Study
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Interstate Highway System
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 2072
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 2072
Book Description