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crash program._to
remove road
side hazards
on existing
streets·_and
highways and to __engineer
the roadsides
of new· facilities
wit:11 safety as_ a major criterion."
..;more-
- 2 "Only in this way,'' the report
states,
"will
leaves the traveled
way
- ,
dangerous
he said,
are
other
seven.
about
stock
of
his
specula
conjecture
that
politics,
or
his
machines.
I know it
travel
and
in
holds
the
United
government
have
growth
in
airline
true
States
for
predicting
where
con·sistently
- of immediate
of long-range
importance.
then,. most of his recommendations
subject
such as the revision
guidelines
use of commercial
been implemented.
Federal
travel
facilities
However,
excise
-provisions,
tax_, and the amendment
most
- that
recommended further
located
information
For some functions,
the papers
action.
All this
to be
is reached
should be
fund method.
decided
to defer
study of payroll
services.
3.
Travel
services.
could demonstrate
4.
Public
A centralized
savings
- and development by DOT Office of High Speed
GroundTransportation-----------------------------------------------TurboTrainsdesigned for service between Boston and New York ----------
Table I-Summary of Coast Guard's search and rescue workload, fiscal year
1967
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travellers
responded
sporadic,
of a particular
America
one means
innovations
were
the promotion
As a result,
from
and service
inconsistent,
means
today lacks
largel;
needs.
oriented
of transportation.
a coordinated
transportation
and goods
- .
Cunningham
Watson
-
.;
Traveling·
soun;:l bad.
enroute.
Will have to have some kind of auto standards·~
more
•
safety. In favor of all or large
. ••
3/1
part of i
3/1
0
3-1-66
TRANSPORTATION
MESSAGE
Leadership
House:
Speaker
~kCormack
- New
-
a reault,
A■
~~~rtlcular
America
means of tran1portatlon
today lack• a coordinated
travellers
and goods to move conveniently
from one means of transportation
system
to another,
and ef!identlY;
using the best characteristics
of each •
..:
Both
-
inconsistent,
largely
needs.
oriented
~
.~
towards
the promotion
As a result,
that permits
of a particular
America
travellers
from one means
means
of transportation
today lacks a coordinated
transportation
and goods to move conveniently
- of Transport Mergers
in the new Department.
While the committee recogruzes that the
needs of the traveling public, and transport merger policy, should be
a prime concern of the new Department, it does not appear that this
should be tied for the indefinite
-
conclude other than that we have lagged far behind the traffic, the
need ■, and the technological
advance• in tranaportatlon
in
traveller'•
our effort ■ to equip the Executive Branch to cope in an efiective and
comprehenaive
manner with the total Oovernment
-
of Transportation
will be a r.-.ajor .:ol'ce.
•
To move America toward its goal of a transportation
network that will allow travelers and goods to move
swiftly, safely and conveniently from one mean• of
transportation
to another, uain1 the beat characteristics
- -- a much more rational
allocation
be
of
5
scarce
national
resources,
including
time.
And from the point
the resource
represented
by the travellers•
of view of the merchant or shipper,
to facilitate
the travel
of himself
less
Or perhaps
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. •; '.l\'' • • _ ~ompotiti ve cvnlli tions.
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The minirail
to serve as an urban
represcn~_
tow:ard meeting t~e specific
an application of new
7
of urban travel within a well-
need·s
.
.
defined cohesive
Acil.mlly; .two things are proposed
·community.
The ffrst is the system
itself
- .. Coordinate ai·rari.ee::ie~ts for !>CTsup~orted travel
for
5. Pro::-::.ote
understa..--idinza.nd e.cce;pta.-ice o'! DOT's ::rl.ssicns,.
activities,
ar.1.dproble::s by Me.:ibers of Co:1sress.
6. .Provide guidance·. a..~ leadership
to DOT sta.f'f