Ever mindful that history is most interesting when it is helpful, the Rambler thought it might be worth mentioning that the Federal Government's first road aid was accomplished through innovative financing.
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Aviation Consumer Protection
1999-12-01 | Air Travel Consumer Report [Series]
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The Air Travel Consumer Report is a monthly product of the Department of Transportation's Office of Aviation Consumer Protection. The report is design...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The National Road, in many places known as Route 40, was built between 1811 and 1834 to reach the western settlements. It was the first federally fund...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Charles Henry Davis, who established the National Highways Association in 1911, traveled across the U.S. promoting his Four-Fold Highway System. As a ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The National Scenic Byways Program of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, has been in full swing with 309 projects ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Fifty-seven miles of rustic carriage roads weave around the mountains and through the valleys of Maine's Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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In early colonial times, letter writers sent their correspondence by friends, merchants and Native Americans via foot or horseback. Most of this corre...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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A new kind of camping has been sweeping America for decades and becomes more and more popular each year. It is referred to as RVing (Recreational Vehi...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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As you travel toward the historic city of Cumberland, Maryland on I-68 from either direction, you will see a mountain ahead in the distance that makes...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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On February 13, 2003, Cheryl Cattledge, Civil Rights Specialist and member of the FHWA Black History Committee, sponsored a Luncheon Program entitled ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Many of our Nation's roadways were once dirt and mud paths until the early to mid–1800s. A modern movement at that time called for the building of w...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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South Dakota-named for the early inhabitants, the great Dakotah (later Dakota) Sioux Indians-has more than 83,000 miles of roadway and 5,900 bridges. ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Canals have a long history of providing drinking water, irrigation, and opportunities for travel. In the United States, canal building began in the 17...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Fortunately, we rarely hear of traffic accidents involving buses, trains, or other highway public transportation vehicles. However, we sometimes hear ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Route 66 was built in the early 1900s and linked hundreds of rural communities from Chicago to Kansas to Los Angeles. Route 66 was popular for transpo...
2009-09-24 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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On October 3, 1893, General Roy Stone opened the Office of Road Inquiry (ORI) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He had a $10,000 budget and one e...
United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Aviation Consumer Protection
2012-03-01 | Air Travel Consumer Report [Series]
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The Air Travel Consumer Report is a monthly product of the Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection (OACP). The report ...
United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Aviation Consumer Protection
2012-07-01 | Air Travel Consumer Report [Series]
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The Air Travel Consumer Report is a monthly product of the Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection (OACP). The report ...
United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Aviation Consumer Protection
2012-06-01 | Air Travel Consumer Report [Series]
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The Air Travel Consumer Report is a monthly product of the Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection (OACP). The report ...
1952-01-01 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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This is an anniversary year in the history of highway landscape development. It was just two decades ago--in 1932--that the Federal Government first d...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Memorandum on key statements made by Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower towards General John S. Bragdon about the Interstate Highway Program on fun...
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