Alaska’s Inclusion in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the Work of the Bureau of Public Roads and the Transition to Statehood-Final Report

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• Creators:
  Naske, C-M
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Corporate Contributors:
  Alaska. Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Federal aid highways
  • Regional economics
  • Highways
  • Alaska
  • Federal Aid Highway Act
  • Administration and Management
  • Highways
  • I10: Economics and Administration
• Publication/ Report Number:
  AK-RD-87-31
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Alaska ; United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00488289
• Corporate Publisher:
  Alaska. Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities
• Abstract:
  The late governor and U.S. Senator from Alaska, Ernest Gruening devoted a chapter in his 1954 volume entitled The State of Alaska to transportation. The Chapter, "Transportation: Tangled Life Lines" examined Alaska's shipping, air transportation, highways, and railroad. According to Gruening, Hugh Peterson (D., Georgia) the chairman of the House Committee on Territories and also a member of the House Committee on Roads reported in 1946 that "the principal reason for the failure of Congress to extend the provisions" of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916* and its amendments to Alaska was probably the fact that the territory's vast size "would entitle it to an unduly large share of the total appropriation made under the act."
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  RSA No. 87NP027
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40616/dot_40616_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 334.55 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ad8a8ddd002b41e93467fe45dcf0eee7411da2ce344d86bb864cb888f3d00e48