Staying on The Highway

Staying on The Highway

Jonathan Walters, in Governing (May 1995), 2300 N St. N.W., Ste. 760, Washington, D.C. 20037.
Despite its ungainly name, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 was supposed to usher in a new era of flexibility and creativity in American trans- portation. No longer would federal aid go overwhelmingly to highway construction. Now there would be more bike paths and public transit, fewer superhighways. It has not worked out that way, reports Walters, a senior writer at...

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