Major Highway Problems in D.C.: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session. December 5 and 6, 1967 |
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14th Street Bridge agreement AIRIS Anacostia approved Avenue Board of Commissioners Bureau of Public Capital Beltway Capital Planning Commission Center Leg Chairman CLEVELAND Comprehensive Plan cost CRAMER D. C. Region D.C. Department DENNEY Department of Highways Department of Transportation District of Columbia East Leg engineering Exhibit expressway facilities Federal City Council freeway and parkway freeway planning freeway program freeway system FUGATE funds going Highway Department Highways and Traffic indicated Inner Loop Interstate Route Interstate System K Street KLUCZYNSKI lanes LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Maryland mass transit ment million National Capital Planning National Capital Region National Park Service North Central Freeway North Leg Northeast Freeway Palisades Parkway park land planning decisions Policy Advisory Committee Potomac River Freeway problems Public Roads RECAST recommended RIVARD South Leg Spout Run statement subcommittee Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Three Sisters Bridge tion Traffic agrees Transportation Plan tunnel Virginia Washington Metropolitan Area WOLFF
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Page 219 - The Secretary of Transportation shall cooperate and consult with the Secretaries of the Interior, Housing and Urban Development, and Agriculture, and with the States in developing transportation plans and programs that include measures to maintain or enhance the natural beauty of the lands traversed.
Page 106 - Among these are the county planning commissions, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the President's Committee on the Physically Handicapped.
Page 139 - Columbia as set forth in the document entitled "1968 Estimate of the Cost of Completion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in the District of Columbia...
Page 3 - Act of 1968, the Secretary shall not approve any program or project which requires the use of any publicly owned land from a public park, recreation area, or wildlife and waterfowl refuge of national, State, or local significance...
Page 189 - After the effective date of this act, the Secretary shall not approve any program or project which requires the use of any land from a public park, recreation area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site unless (1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land, and (2) such program include all possible planning to minimize harm to such park, recreation area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge or historic site resulting from such use.
Page 3 - State, or local significance as so determined by such officials unless (1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land, and (2) such program includes all possible planning to minimize harm to such park, recreational area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site resulting from such use.
Page 103 - Plan developed by the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council. The plan projected a total regional population of five million by the year 2000.
Page 110 - Committee's recent re-evaluation of freeway plans in the District of Columbia. I am pleased to submit this Committee's statement as an enclosure to this letter. I also take pleasure in advising you that the Board of Commissioners endorses the statement of the Policy Advisory Committee. As you will note, the Committee advises that certain freeway projects, for which construction is either underway or imminent, should proceed without delay, and that future project plans be reviewed with increased emphasis...
Page 189 - It is hereby declared to be the national policy that special effort should be made to preserve the natural beauty of the countryside and public park and recreation lands, wildlife and waterfowl refuges, and historic sites.
Page 111 - ... Policy Advisory Committee on the plans for interstate freeways within the District of Columbia, and advising me that the Board of Commissioners has endorsed the statement of the Committee. The Committee's decision to seek the aid of a consultant, and its unanimous statement following the consultant's report, are reassuring to me and will be reassuring to the Congress and the citizens of the District of Columbia. This review demonstrates that freeways, which the District must have, can and will...