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==History== | ==History== | ||
In 1965, | In 1965, Najeeb Halaby, the chief of the independent [[Federal Aviation Agency]] strongly urged President Lyndon Johnson to set up a cabinet-level Department of Transportation. Halaby proposed merging the responsibilities of the undersecretary of commerce for transportation and the Federal Aviation Agency to achieve this goal. While the federal government was granted authority over aviation and railroads through the commerce clause of the Constitution, the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration primarily provided funding for state and local projects, without significant influence over road construction and operation. Halaby emphasized the need for improved coordination and expressed frustration at the lack of an overall plan. "One looks in vain", he told Johnson, "for a point of responsibility below the President capable of taking an evenhanded, comprehensive, authoritarian approach to the development of transportation policies or even able to assure reasonable coordination and balance among the various transportation programs of the government." Johnson convinced Congress to act and The Department of Transportation was authorized in October 1966 and launched on 1 April 1967, with a mission to ensure that federal funds were effectively used to support the national transportation program. Johnson proclaimed upon signing the act: "Transportation has truly emerged as a significant part of our national life. As a basic force in our society, its progress must be accelerated so that the quality of our life can be improved."<ref>Richard Dean Burns and Joseph M. Siracusa, ''Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) p. 118.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ntl.bts.gov/historian/history.htm |title=The United States Department of Transportation: A Brief History |publisher=National Transportation Library |date=March 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025185007/http://ntl.bts.gov/historian/history.htm |archive-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/transportation/timeline |title=Department of Transportation Timeline |first=Chris |last=Edwards |website=Downsizing the Federal Government }}</ref><ref>[https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32182 April 1, 1967 : the opening day of the U.S. Department of Transportation.] January 1, 2017 By Martin, David; Strayhorn, Nicole C.; Wilson, Amanda J. Official website of United States Department of Transportation, National Transportation Library, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.</ref> | ||
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In 2012, the DOT awarded $742.5 million in funds from the | In 2012, the DOT awarded $742.5 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to 11 transit projects. The awardees include light rail projects. Other projects include both a commuter rail extension and a subway project in New York City, and a bus rapid transit system in Springfield, Oregon. The funds subsidize a heavy rail project in northern Virginia, completing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Metro Silver Line to connect Washington, D.C., and the Washington Dulles International Airport<ref name="EERE2009">{{cite web |url=http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=12512 |access-date=August 9, 2010 |title=DOT Awards $742.5 Million in Recovery Act Funds to 11 Transit Projects |work=EERE Network News |date=May 13, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528034759/http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=12512 |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}</ref> (DOT had previously agreed to subsidize the Silver Line construction to Reston, Virginia).<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report on Funding Recommendations – Fiscal Year 2010 |url=http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/20090508_Release_FY_2010_Annual_Report.pdf |publisher=U.S. Department of Transportation |pages=A-75 (101) & seq |date=April 29, 2009 |access-date=August 9, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528085500/http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/20090508_Release_FY_2010_Annual_Report.pdf |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}</ref> | ||
President [[Barack Obama]]'s budget request for 2010 also included $1.83 billion in funding for major transit projects. More than $600 million went towards ten new or expanding transit projects. The budget provided additional funding for all of the projects currently receiving Recovery Act funding, except for the bus rapid transit project. It also continued funding for another 18 transit projects that are either currently under construction or soon will be.<ref name="EERE2009" /> Following the same, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 delegated $600 million for Infrastructure Investments, referred to as Discretionary Grants. | President [[Barack Obama]]'s budget request for 2010 also included $1.83 billion in funding for major transit projects. More than $600 million went towards ten new or expanding transit projects. The budget provided additional funding for all of the projects currently receiving Recovery Act funding, except for the bus rapid transit project. It also continued funding for another 18 transit projects that are either currently under construction or soon will be.<ref name="EERE2009" /> Following the same, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 delegated $600 million for Infrastructure Investments, referred to as Discretionary Grants. | ||
The Department of Transportation was authorized a | The Department of Transportation was authorized a budget for Fiscal Year 2016 of $75.1 billion. The budget authorization is broken down as follows:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/DOT_BH2017_508%5B2%5D.pdf |title=Transforming Communities in the 21st Century |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429182605/https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/DOT_BH2017_508%5B2%5D.pdf |archive-date=April 29, 2017 |access-date=September 18, 2022 }}</ref> | ||
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