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Federal Aid Highway Act

The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 (PL 93-87) was the renewal of the highway bill for the next five years, authorizing $18.35 billion. It had several important changes:

  • States could use part of the Highway Trust Fund[?] for public transport. Thus cities which decided to abandon or drop interstate highways through city centers could reuse that money for other purposes, rather than losing it entirely.

  • It granted urban highways as many dollars as rural highways
 



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