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D.C. Freeway Revolt and the Coming of Metro Part 4 Battling the Revolt D.C. Freeway Revolt and the Coming of Metro Part 4 Battling the Revolt Table of Contents Unfinished Business ........................................................................................................................ 3 President Johnson Intervenes .......................................................................................................... 7 Revisiting Home Rule ..................................................................................................................... 9 Revenue Bill .................................................................................................................................. 14 Interstate Compact ........................................................................................................................ 15 North-Central Freeway .................................................................................................................. 19 The Arthur D. Little Report .......................................................................................................... 21 Reaction to the Little Report ......................................................................................................... 25 The Doxiadis Plan for the Georgetown Waterfront ...................................................................... 30 Policy Advisory Committee Acts.................................................................................................. 36 About Tunnels ............................................................................................................................... 40 Locating the North-Central Freeway ............................................................................................. 42 Federal City Council Report ......................................................................................................... 44 Home Rule Strategy ...................................................................................................................... 47 NCTA’s Executive Committee ..................................................................................................... 52 “Time to Stop This Foolishness” .................................................................................................. 56 Jockeying for Position ................................................................................................................... 60 Breakthrough Agreement on Freeways ......................................................................................... 65 The Money Problem ...................................................................................................................... 75 The Compact – Extending the Promise ........................................................................................ 78 Breaking the Auto Jam .................................................................................................................. 80 The Home Rule Rider ................................................................................................................... 82 Shifting the North-Central Freeway .............................................................................................. 87 Advancing the Compact – Senate ................................................................................................. 88 The Revenue Impasse ................................................................................................................... 92 NCPC Acts .................................................................................................................................... 96 Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1966 .............................................................................................. 101 The New Challenge to the Three Sisters Bridge ......................................................................... 105 The Interstate Compact ............................................................................................................... 106 Finishing the FY 1967 Appropriations Act................................................................................. 111 Advancing North-Central Freeway ............................................................................................. 113 Changes in Leadership ................................................................................................................ 120 The U.S. Department of Transportation...................................................................................... 122 Washington’s Ponte Vecchio Bridge .......................................................................................... 126 The Furor of the Past – at an End................................................................................................ 129 Reconsidering Three Sisters........................................................................................................ 132 Three Sisters Tunnel ................................................................................................................... 137 “Feasible and Prudent”................................................................................................................ 141 District Reorganization ............................................................................................................... 145 Congress Considers D.C. Reorganization ................................................................................... 150 Addressing the North Central Freeway ....................................................................................... 159 The Year 1985 Comprehensive Plan .......................................................................................... 164 Freeway Conflicts ....................................................................................................................... 170 Secretary Boyd’s Perspective ...................................................................................................... 176 Reorganizing the District ............................................................................................................ 190 Three Sisters Bridge Inches Forward .......................................................................................... 195 Advancing Rail Rapid Transit .................................................................................................... 199 Meet General Jackson Graham ................................................................................................... 203 Deleting the Columbia Heights Spur .......................................................................................... 205 Creating a System ....................................................................................................................... 210 Making Connections ................................................................................................................... 218 The Court Rulings ....................................................................................................................... 223 Secretary Boyd’s Position ........................................................................................................... 227 Major Highway Problems in D.C. .............................................................................................. 238 Awaiting a Mandate .................................................................................................................... 265 The Mandate ............................................................................................................................... 267 The First Budget.......................................................................................................................... 270 Secretary Boyd’s Response ......................................................................................................... 274 New Year, Old Battles – 1968 .................................................................................................... 276 Secretary Boyd on Political Clout ............................................................................................... 279 The GW Link .............................................................................................................................. 282 Work Group Reports ................................................................................................................... 283 The 1968 Interstate Cost Estimate .............................................................................................. 285 D.C. Freeway Revolt and the Coming of Metro Part 4 Battling the Revolt Unfinished Business In 1965, officials made progress in addressing the area’s transportation problems. They secured funding to begin the rail rapid transit system the area needed. However, they would have to go back to Congress in 1966 for more money for the system and approval of the interstate compact authority to take over the program from NCTA. Moreover, the freeway network was stymied by citizen opposition, official obstacles, and the lack of District matching funds to complete the Interstate routes before the 90-10 construction program ended in 1972. As for the rail rapid transit system, it had enjoyed some success in 1965, but as 1966 began, its future had many question marks. George Lardner, in his final month writing the Potomac Watch column, had this to say: If the city and the suburbs can’t unite on a program for a metropolitan rapid transit system,
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