The Crisis in Highway Transportation |
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accidents already Americans annual approximately automobiles automotive transportation Brookings Institute bumper buses centers city streets congestion Congress constantly increasing construction program cost decade diversion dollar economic employes enacted engineering facilities Federal funds Federal Government federal-aid financing fiscal geared to transport hampered highway construction highway expenditures Highway Officials highway projects highway transportation inadequate industry inefficiencies Investment land Large-Scale leaders legislation loss MacDonald Main Arteries main roads matching ment million miles million tons million units Modernization motor vehicles move movement national defense necessary Ninety per cent non-highway purposes obsolete outmoded Parking passenger cars petroleum Phenomenal plant problem production relatively small mileage result revenues Road Program road-bed roads and streets roadway Role rolling stock routes rural serious impair shortage single steel studies taxes thousand tion today's Toll traffic jam transport system transportation crisis trend truck ture Uncle Sam urban Urgently Needed vital workers World War II