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OF TRANSPORTATION
by transferring to the Secretary, modal Administrators, and a newly
created National Transportation Safety Board all of the transporta
tion safety responsibilities which are now vested in agencies through
out the Government. Although some 35
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the national
maritime
traffic
economy,
operating
truck,
industry,
quarterly
trends
net income,
since April,
creased
5% in 1963 over 1962 and 10. 5% over 1961.
city ton miles
the most valid indicator
carriage
by regulated
domestic
fared
trunk
-
of an affluent
The United States
upon privately
mOrt.keeps
pace with our
for ~sportation
But that is too conservative
Private
primarily
industries
than the Gross
an estimate
National
people with ever-increasing
-- and Public
is the only major
- in the next twenty years.
But even that la too conservative
l• growin;
economic
industries
an estimate.
Passenger
much £aster than our Oros a National Product
of an afQucnt people with ever-increasing
Pl'ivate
and Public
tranaportatlon
-• refiocting
- characteristics
of each and capable of
moving people and goods without waste or discrimination at the lowest cost
consistent with health, convenience,
national security and other broad
public objectives.
Furthermore, the transportation
system must connect
all
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regard
to national
needs and prestige,
we simply
cannot
afford
as a nation.to
subsidize
the operation
of a
World War II fleet
in the 1970s.
We, above all nations,
should
have the world's
most technologically
advanced
and
productive
fleet.
Accor,dingly
- people will be killed on the ·highway this year -- almost
every American
has a friend or relative
who has been seriously
injured
in an automobile
accident).
,
Fully developing
some proposals
obviously involves no commitment
to
carry them out, but if we
- . go:vemmeBts,e8ffieFs~
11 labor, ftHe:ethett inteFested parties tov.-ard the aehie¥ement
12 6f national tFanspoFttttioflobjeeti¥es; te stimHle,teteehHologt
13 eal advances iH tFaBspoFtation; te pFo:•+ride
geneml leadeFshi1,
14 ift the idefltifieation ootl
- the Gross
an estimate.
National
people with ever-increasing
-- and Public
is the only major
will double
Passengez
Product
incomes.
- - Responsibility
nation in ~e world that relies
owned and operated
transportation
•
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.
.
- 5 That national
- conaervative
ii srowlng much faster
an estimate.
Paesenger
than the Groaa Nationa.1 Product
the dealree of an a.Hluent people with evor•lncreaalng
Private
will double
incomes.
•· and Public •• Responsibility
The United State• la the only major nation
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14 riers, labor, and other interested parties toward the achievo15 ment of national transportation objectives; to stimulate
i6 •• technologiral advances in transportation; to provide general
17 leadership in th~ identificatio1iand solution