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On April 2, 1971, Associate Administrator for Planning E. H. "Ted" Holmes retired after 43 years of service with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) and the Federal Highway Administration. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had joined the BPR in 1928...

Thomas H. MacDonald on Toll Roads

Thomas H. MacDonald, who headed the FHWA's predecessor agencies from 1919 to 1953, and his top assistant, Herbert Fairbank, were recognized as highway authorities internationally. During the 1920s and 1930s, they helped the State highway agencies to create the Nation's first "interstate system"...

Good Roads Work for the New Century: General Roy Stone

former Special Agent and Engineer for Road Inquiry
Office of Road Inquiry
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
("as told to Richard Weingroff")

INTRODUCTION: In October 1993, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) celebrated its 100^th anniversary in...

30 Years Ago: President Ronald Reagan Visits DOT Headquarters: The Fight for a Gas Tax Increase

By Richard Weingroff

The country is in a recession with an unemployment rate as high as 10 percent! Highway and bridge needs far exceed highway user tax revenue! The President opposes a gas tax increase! Sounds familiar, but the year was 1982 and the solution...

National Highway System: Imagining The Future

By Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 authorized establishment of a National Highway System that would be the primary Federal focus of the post-Interstate era:
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