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45th Aniversary of the birth of UMTA |
Posted on July 11th, 4:58PM , 2009 by chris in |
Friday the 10th was the 45th anniversary of the signing by LBJ of the Urban Mass Transit Act (UMTA), which was the first federal funding for mass transit and has evolved into (the programs of) today’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Maybe within the next 45 years we’ll get some parity between funding for roads and transit.
All of us recognize that the curses of congestion in commuting cannot be wiped away with the single stroke of a pen, or 50 pens that we have here. But we do know that this legislation that we are coming to grips with faces the realities of American life and attempts to put in motion a movement to do something about it.
