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Creators:
Weingroff, Richard F.
Corporate Creators:
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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Federal Aid Highways Highways History
Series:
FHWA Highway History Website Articles
Resource Type:
Web Document
Right Statement:
Public domain
Geographical Coverage:
United States
Corporate Publisher:
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Abstract:
This article discusses four periods during which the Federal-aid highway program was under attack: Between the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 and the Federal Highway Act of 1921,the highway community and Federal and State officials debated whether the Federal Government should build the roads the Nation needed. In the 1920s, the program was under pressure to downsize in favor of the States. With the States seeking all the aid they could get in the 1930s, the issue was how much control the President should have over government expenditures for highway improvements as he attempted to revitalize and fine tune the economy. In the early 1950s, the States sought to regain the control they thought they had lost in the Federal-aid bargain struck in 1916.
Content Notes:
The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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PDF
Collection(s):
Federal Highway Administration
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