Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Budget and Finance Committee
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ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Legislative Budget and Finance Committee Annual Report to the Pennsylvania General Assembly
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Budget and Finance Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Glory Years of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Author: Mitchell E. Dakelman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439658943
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Take a journey on the Pennsylvania Turnpike - the "superhighway" that went from one generation's tourist destination to the ridicule of another's. The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened to traffic on October 1, 1940. Built using the right-of-way and unfinished tunnels of the never completed South Pennsylvania Railroad, it was a supreme achievement of civil engineering. The new highway immediately captured the public's imagination and proved to be an unqualified success. Motorists flocked from around the country to drive on the new "superhighway," and it became a tourist destination on its lonesome. But along with that success, the seeds were planted for its eventual fall from grace. Under-engineered, poorly maintained, and the victim of premature obsolescence, the highway became the object of public scorn in little more than a generation. Only since the turn of the 21st century were real efforts made to change that perception.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439658943
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Take a journey on the Pennsylvania Turnpike - the "superhighway" that went from one generation's tourist destination to the ridicule of another's. The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened to traffic on October 1, 1940. Built using the right-of-way and unfinished tunnels of the never completed South Pennsylvania Railroad, it was a supreme achievement of civil engineering. The new highway immediately captured the public's imagination and proved to be an unqualified success. Motorists flocked from around the country to drive on the new "superhighway," and it became a tourist destination on its lonesome. But along with that success, the seeds were planted for its eventual fall from grace. Under-engineered, poorly maintained, and the victim of premature obsolescence, the highway became the object of public scorn in little more than a generation. Only since the turn of the 21st century were real efforts made to change that perception.
PA Turnpike Commission Performance Audit
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Budget and Finance Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Turnpike
Author: Mitchell E. Dakelman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439631840
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439631840
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1998
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the ... Session of the ... Congress of the United States
Author: United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Federal Aid for Post-war Highway Construction
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Commercial Motor Carrier Safety
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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