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  2. Ministry of Highways, Ports & Shipping - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Highways, Ports and Shipping was a Sri Lankan government ministry responsible for the governance, implementation, creation and development of Ports including Colombo, Galle and Trincomalee ports, Highways including Southern expressway, Colombo Outer Circular expressway, Katunayake expressway and their transport services.

  3. Road Development Authority - Wikipedia

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    Government of Sri Lanka: ... is the premier highway authority in Sri Lanka and is responsible for the maintenance and development of the National Highway ...

  4. Highway systems by country - Wikipedia

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    The Interstate Highway System was created by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, [12] [13] which authorized $25 billion in federal funds through 1969. [14] When the Act of Congress that authorized the Interstate Highway System was passed and then signed by President Eisenhower , it was already clear that the Interstate Highways would be far ...

  5. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An act to amend and supplement the Federal Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1956, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional revenue from taxes on motor fuel, tires, and trucks and buses; and for other purposes.

  6. Ministry of Transport and Highways - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 January 2007: Minister of Transport [52] [53] [54] Kumara Welgama: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 April 2010 [55] [56] [57] R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara: United National Party: 12 January 2015: 17 August 2015: Maithripala Sirisena: Minister of Internal Transport [58] [59] [60] Nimal Siripala de Silva: Sri Lanka Freedom ...

  7. Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia

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    In June 1956, Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 into law. Under the act, the federal government would pay for 90 percent of the cost of construction of Interstate Highways. Each Interstate Highway was required to be a freeway with at least four lanes and no at-grade crossings. [22]

  8. Federal-aid highway program - Wikipedia

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    The Interstate Highway System (FAI routes) The Federal-aid primary highway system (FAP system) is a system of connected main highways, selected by each state highway department subject to the approval of the Bureau of Public Roads. It encompasses routes of the Interstate System and other important routes serving essentially through traffic with ...

  9. Government of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Sri Lanka has been the constitution of the island nation of Sri Lanka since its original promulgation by the National State Assembly on 7 September 1978. It is Sri Lanka's second republican constitution and its third constitution since the country's independence (as Ceylon) in 1948, after the Donoughmore Constitution ...