National Capital Transportation Act Amendments of 1979

National Capital Transportation Act Amendments of 1979 PDF

Author: Committee On The District Of Columbia

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780265969441

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Excerpt from National Capital Transportation Act Amendments of 1979: Hearings and Markups Before the Subcommittee of Metropolitan Affairs and the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session on H. R. 3634, H. R. 1792, and H. R. 3914 Mr. Stark. The meeting of the Subcommittee on Metropolitan Affairs of the Committee on the District of Columbia will come to order; let us proceed. I have prepared an opening statement which succinctly and clearly and with irrefutable logic shows the need for such legisla tion. I would ask unanimous consent that I dispense with the reading of that statement and make it part of the record, and suffice to say that it is important that we proceed with this legisla tion in the interest of completing the Metro, getting capital funds to do so, getting operating subsidies in the 96th Congress and getting all this done before May 15 due to the constraints of the Budget Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Great Society Subway

The Great Society Subway PDF

Author: Zachary M. Schrag

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-08

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1421415771

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As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.