Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Costs and Problems of Completing the Interstate Highway System, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Costs and Problems of Completing the Interstate Highway System; Report to the Congress
Author: 1965 Cost Estimates for Completion of Interstate and Defense Highway System
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate Highway System
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Reviews and clarifies 1965 cost estimates compiled by the 50 states and the Bureau of Public Roads. Also considers administration of the highway program, as it affects scheduled completion of the system.
Interstate
Author: Mark H. RosePublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.
The Big Roads
Author: Earl SwiftPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 054754913X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times). It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and roadside rest stops, a familiar route for commuters and vacationing families. But during the twentieth century, the interstate highway system dramatically changed the face of our nation. These interconnected roads—over 47,000 miles of them—are man-made wonders, economic pipelines, agents of sprawl, uniquely American symbols of escape and freedom, and an unrivaled public works accomplishment. Though officially named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this network of roadways has origins that reach all the way back to the World War I era, and The Big Roads—“the first thorough history of the expressway system” (The Washington Post)—tells the full story of how they came to be. From the speed demon who inspired a primitive web of dirt auto trails to the largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system years before Ike reached the White House to the city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it bore down on their neighborhoods, this book reveals both the massive scale of this government engineering project, and the individual lives that have been transformed by it. A fast-paced history filled with fascinating detours, “the book is a road geek’s treasure—and everyone who travels the highways ought to know these stories” (Kirkus Reviews).
The Eisenhower Interstate System
Author: John MurphyPublisher: Chelsea House
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Examines the construction of the interstate highway system.
Costs and Problems of Completing the Interstate Highway System
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721532735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Costs and Problems of Completing the Interstate Highway System
Federal Program Evaluations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.
Federal highway program needs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Federal Evaluations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.