Ask the Rambler: Did the Highway Lobby Stop Congress from Funding Transit Instead of the Interstate System in 1956?

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• Creators:
  The Rambler
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributors:
  Weingroff, Richard F.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Financing Government Funding History Interstate Highways Public Transit
• 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:
  If you've read an anti-sprawl book, you've read the horror story: the evil Highway Lobby (motto: Let's Pave Over America) tricked Congress in 1956 into building Interstate highways instead of providing aid to transit as Congress otherwise would have done-thereby forcing people who longed for transit to buy cars instead. The question is: was Congress tricked?
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• Collection(s):
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