Toll Roads and Free Roads- Early Discussion of the Interstate System

Secretary of Agriculture

Verlag: Government Printing Office, 1939

Beschreibung

TOLL ROADS AND FREE ROADS MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 1939 HC VG. I am pleased to offer what must be truly one of the critical historical documents related to the development of the highway system in the United States and the many considerations at the time. Please find: Toll Roads and Free Roads Message from the President of the United States transmitting: A letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, concurred in by the Secretary of War, enclosing a report of the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture, on the feasibility of a system of transcontinental toll roads and a Master Plan for Free Highway Development. This report was by order of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to the Committee on Roads and ordered to be printed with illustrations. I am pleased to offer you this copy of that report with all its many illustrations bound together as a small hard cover book (5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches 132 pages) published by the Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. and dated 1939. Please see the photos of the Table of Contents for your further information. The list includes 60 plates bound into the report many of which are fold-outs and all present and another 20 Tables of supporting figures and documentation. As I understand it- The 1939 report determined that toll funding would not work for transcontinental roads but the traffic and route studies in the report, and its master plan for free road development, laid the groundwork for the later development of the Interstate Highway System. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are clean and bright but the gilt titles on cover and spine are a bit tarnished with time. The corners and spine tips are very lightly bumped. Inside the book is unmarked and the pages-plates and tables are clean and bright throughout without any toning or foxing. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 109

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Toll Roads and Free Roads- Early Discussion ...

Verlag: Government Printing Office

Erscheinungsdatum: 1939

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition