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1966 – Department of Transportation established, Pub. L. 89–670, 80 Stat. 931; 1970 – Urban Mass Transportation Act, Pub. L. 91–453, 84 Stat. 962; 1970 – Rail Passenger Service Act PL 91-518; 1970 – Airport and Airway Development Act PL 91-258; 1973 – Federal Aid Highway Act PL 93-87; 1973 – Amtrak Improvement Act PL 93-146
5-1-1 is a transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada.Travelers can dial 511, a three-digit telephone number, on landlines and most mobile phones.
In 1964, only seven percent of vehicles made in Canada were sent south of the border, but by 1968, the figure was sixty percent. [10] By the same date, forty percent of cars purchased in Canada were made in the United States. Automobile and parts production soon surpassed pulp and paper to become Canada's largest industry. From 1965 to 1982 ...
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transportation systems.
The Federal Highway Administration was created on October 15, 1966, along with the Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety and the National Highway Safety Bureau (now known as National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), as part of the new U.S. Department of Transportation. [6]
The Motor Vehicle Safety Act was established in 1971 in order to create safety standards for cars in Canada. The department also acts as the federal government's funding partner with provincial (and territorial) transport ministries on jointly-funded provincial transportation infrastructure projects for new highways.
The agency was established as a separate administration within U.S. Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000, pursuant to the "Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999." [ 3 ] FMCSA is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and employs more than 1,000 people in all 50 States and the District of Columbia, with the goal of making "roadways ...
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA, / aɪ s ˈ t i /) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Highway System era.